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 1F9TDR-0000va-HR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:25:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1FKOX1e023909; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:24:33 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1FKKbhk013368 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:20:37 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F9T8e-0007a9-Q8 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:20:37 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F9T8R-00037b-FT for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:20:23 +0100 Received: from 213-162-120-196.michae422.adsl.metronet.co.uk ([213.162.120.196]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:20:23 +0100 Received: from michaelkintzios by 213-162-120-196.michae422.adsl.metronet.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:20:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Mick Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: X without console log window? Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:20:49 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20060213133341.7c2f89b4.hilse@web.de> <20060213191500.245c2820.hilse@web.de> 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-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-162-120-196.michae422.adsl.metronet.co.uk User-Agent: KNode/0.9.3 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: ce1ee11e-c631-4c4b-900d-e88a236a42a3 X-Archives-Hash: e7593280be93ba529c31ebb61071626e Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > No problem. But it's from a debian system... From /etc/syslog.conf: > ---snip--- > # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it, > # you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option: > # > # $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] > # > # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably > # busy site.. > # > daemon.*;mail.*;\ > news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ > *.=debug;*.=info;\ > *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole > ---snip--- > > 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. 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? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list