-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 November 2004 10:15 pm, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Is it possible to force console output (e.g. messages when new hardware > is detected, disk errors, etc) to go to a different device? Either an > xterm or, better yet, a remote ssh connection? I do a lot of hardware > troubleshooting remotely via SSH and it would be a LOT easier if I could > actually see the system messages that are being generated.
You need not force. It's already done there. Look into the /dev directory. There's a FIFO device named xconsole on to which you can redirect syslog messages. To read from /dev/xconsole use programs like xconsole. HTH rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research". -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBixcW4Rhi6gTxMLwRAgK/AJ4oQGsoZsM3Tw2+BBracG+d7s7uBQCfa7qb 3rNsxqwIKHg8pe8NkXaYvy8= =rtEL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
