On Wed November 19 2008, s. keeling wrote:
> > I did a CTRL-ALT-F9 earlier that day, thinking I was switching to my
> > OTHER user logged in, and those lines were on the screen, instead of the
> > gdm login
>
> syslogd may be configured to send messages to that pty also. It's a
> common prctice and probably not sinister.
I just looked through /etc/syslog.conf, and I didn't see anything about a
pty..
99.999% of the lines were comments.. except for this:
# The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it,
# $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...]
*.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole
so... what is xconsole?
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