Re: /var/log growing rapidly
Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:41 +0100 (CET) "s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com> wrote:
> > Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>:
> >
> > > 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
>
> What are the advantages over 'tail -f /var/log/messages'?
None but esthetics; that's pretty much what it does. I liked to run
it with about five lines of small but readable text in a corner of my
screen. It was very nice to have way back when I was still using
dialup (modem) connections.
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