that cool term window displaying /var/log/messages realtime!

[Unruly]

how in the fsck do I do that? I'm assuming that I don't need much (something like as shellscript or something...) but, anyone here care to point me in the right direction?

Thanks http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

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Nathan
Q: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to screw it in and one to observe how the lightbulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness.

[posterboy]

I'm not sure what you are looking for. To put the log in a term, try tail -f 20 /var/log/messages. Change that number to control how many lines are shown. Better yet, I am very fond of roottail, which can be found on www.rpmfind.net (http://www.rpmfind.net) (at least) This tails the log without a terminal at all, just right up the root desktop.
Ray


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ray@raymondjones.net
HTTP://www.raymondjones.net

[Unruly]

well, basically what I want to do is have a term window with no border (can already do that) and for it to constantly update me as to what's going on, as the /var/log/messages is written... here, if I can find a screenshot of it, I'll show you.

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Nathan
Q: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to screw it in and one to observe how the lightbulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness.

[Unruly]

http://clanghostbear.tripod.com/logterm.jpg

Click here to see if it doesn't show up above. (http://clanghostbear.tripod.com/logterm.jpg)

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Nathan
Q: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to screw it in and one to observe how the lightbulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness.

[Luthor]

I can ctl-alt-F12 to see the messages on my Drake system - I also redirected that to a VT220 off the serial port to watch realtime.

the last line in my /etc/syslog.conf does that as I recall - "*.* /dev/tty12" I just added a line to also send *.* to serial port 1.

Hope this helps... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

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Luthor St. James
(aka [AcK]BillTheCat)

[This message has been edited by Luthor (edited 01 December 2000).]

[Unruly]

Ermm... no... like... here, lemme upload the WHOLE screen shot...

http://clanghostbear.tripod.com/screen.jpg

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Nathan
Q: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to screw it in and one to observe how the lightbulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness.

[Luthor]

xconsole??



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Luthor St. James
(aka [AcK]BillTheCat)

[Unruly]

just tried it, it doesn't work... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif

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Nathan
Q: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to screw it in and one to observe how the lightbulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness.

[bdl]

Youre talking about xtail (http://www.unicom.com/sw/xtail/). You could also just get aterm (http://aterm.sourceforge.net/) and create a term with the parameters you want, eg no border, transparent, geometry 80x20+10+10 and just let it hang there....
Wait a sec...you probably want it right on the x root window...you'll need root-tail (http://goof.com/pcg/marc/root-tail.html). Luck..

[This message has been edited by bdl (edited 01 December 2000).]