Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X without console log window?

[Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:20:49 +0000
Mick <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk> wrote:

> > I don't have currently syslog-ng running, but I think I remember that
> > similar configuration was in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf (maybe
> > commented out?)
> 
> Yes, it was commented out as the default setting is to send everything to
> tty12:
> ================================
> # By default messages are logged to tty12...
> #destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };
> # ...if you intend to use /dev/console for programs like xconsole
> # you can comment out the destination line above that references /dev/tty12
> # and uncomment the line below.
> destination console_all { file("/dev/console"); };
> ================================
> So, now I've uncommented it but every single message is shown not only in
> xconsole (which is fine), but in tty1 as well.  The latter makes the boot
> up messages look very messy indeed.

What a confusion. I use debian here which seems to be configured
differently. But read below...

> I don't know if I am asking too much here, but is there a way to:
> 1. Continue with all messages shown in tty12 as per default syslog-ng
> configuration.
> 2. Also show all/some messages to xconsole.
> 3. Do not pipe everything to console during/after boot - the default
> messages there are adequate for my liking.
> 
> Perhaps I am a bit confused: what is the relationship between /dev/console
> and xconsole?

Ah, the xconsole program man page explains it: By default, xconsole
reads from /dev/console. I didn't knew that.

What you want to archieve is more like the solution debian uses. I'll
post it here but I haven't tried it out so I cannot promise that it
works:

syslog-ng.conf:
---snip---
destination xconsole { pipe("/dev/xconsole"); };
destination terminal { file("/dev/tty12"); };
log { source(src); destination(xconsole); }
log { source(src); destination(terminal); }
---snip---

/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0:
---snip---
xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail -file /dev/xconsole
---snip---

That should do what you want to archieve.
Nice alternative to xconsole is root-tail...

-hwh

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