From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FC1Rp-0001G0-W6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:22:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1MLLxXa007261; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:21:59 GMT Received: from lmfilto03.st1.spray.net (lmfilto03.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.217]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1MLH7MG004544 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:17:07 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lmfilto03.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D56E4AC7FD for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:49:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cmcodec04.st1.spray.net ([212.78.203.80]) by localhost (lmfilto03.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.32]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00817-02 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:49:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cmcodec04.st1.spray.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cmcodec04.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with SMTP id AF5D4CA58B for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:49:53 +0000 (GMT) Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=lycos.co.uk; h=From:Subject; b=K5gZiMian052qbEMuOTRm0QD4x/T4Op/dxCGU/bHXv/czuIjF4vZqLuZxbKc5N6e46SCKN3U96fQ/pUlS3Ufsf6qch09NMT5bN1uXFlJE/3ChR7uqK2SGv0cM+J5G1AVac6uUn3JgMWuUMsmwYxFHEJcYAuyKnqe0o6WIgvoKtc=; From: "Michael Kintzios" To: Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Re: X without console log window? Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:49:53 -0000 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <20060216125451.483c0ae8.hilse@web.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at spray.net X-Archives-Salt: 5601f97f-663d-4727-b191-bbb7b08eca74 X-Archives-Hash: a40141e9ad56207e36f0b01fa8af13ee > -----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 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list