On Tue November 25 2008, s. keeling wrote: > > 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.
great, thanks! at least I found out about less -F, so maybe I can switch from tailing to lessing:) -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
