Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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..
Sorry, this is part of the kernel configuration, I believe. > 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? 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 the immediate effect it has. In practice, it's very difficult to get X to let root put a root owned process on a user's display, and once you get it going, the next Debian release breaks your tweak, at least in my experience. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
