Printing logs to screen?

[Jani]

Anyone know how to print these logs straight to the screen like in this screenshot (from http://wm.themes.org btw)?

http://www.mitosis.com/sections/board/files/7-3834-screendump.gif

[X_console]

Yes. First get Eterm or some other "xterm" that can do transparency. With Eterm, you need to pass it the -C option so it reads messages that go to /dev/console. Then in your /etc/syslogd.conf have an entry spaced with TABs that looks like this:


*.* /dev/console


That will log every single message to your Eterm. If you want to narrow it down to only specific messages you can read the man page for syslog.conf

[Strike]

There's also root-tail (http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/root-tail.html)

[Radar]

Or tail -f /var/log/messages
or tail -f /var/log/syslog

Oh yeah & xrootconsole

[ 20 February 2001: Message edited by: Radar ]

[carwyn]

Cheers Strike! Root-tail is good :cool: