On Tue,25.Nov.08, 18:58:19, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:41 +0100 (CET) > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ... > > > > 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. > > What are the advantages over 'tail -f /var/log/messages'?
AFAICT you can configure your syslog daemon to send only specific messages to xconsole. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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