Re: /var/log growing rapidly

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Tue November 25 2008, s. keeling wrote:
> >  so... what is xconsole?
>
> A very useful app if you can get it to work.  It puts a small window
> on your display that scrolls /var/log/messages constantly in real
> time.  It's very nice if you're changing something and want to know
> the immediate effect it has.
>
> In practice, it's very difficult to get X to let root put a root owned
> process on a user's display, and once you get it going, the next
> Debian release breaks your tweak, at least in my experience.

great, thanks!
at least I found out about less -F, so maybe I can switch from tailing to 
lessing:)


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