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

["Michael Kintzios" <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:hilse@web.de] 
> Sent: 16 February 2006 11:55
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X without console log window?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:20:49 +0000
> Mick <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 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...

I've played around with your suggestions but had no joy with them.
Syslog-ng came up with many errors and although I tried different
combinations I couldn't get it to work.

Root-tail is cool but it gets covered up by different windows.  Do you
launch it as a default by entering a line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 ?

Xconsole does what I want it to do, but I would also like to get tty12
printing all messages and ideally would like xconsole to be positioned
above the fluxbox toolbar (height wise).
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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