Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > > What are the advantages over 'tail -f /var/log/messages'?
None but esthetics; that's pretty much what it does. I liked to run it with about five lines of small but readable text in a corner of my screen. It was very nice to have way back when I was still using dialup (modem) connections. -- 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]
