From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 27 02:04:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDE416A401 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:04:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB2F13C455 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:04:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2R24qo0089303; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:04:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <46087BB8.6080606@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:04:40 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Short References: <746998.1022.qm@web56515.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <746998.1022.qm@web56515.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: redirect /dev/console to a file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:04:57 -0000 Neil Short wrote: > I'd like to redirect /dev/console to some file that > can be read by the xrootconsole port. > > Is this ambition feasible? > > I like the functionality of xconsole; but it's not > very pretty. > According to the default /etc/syslog.conf, you should be able to enable syslogd to log to a file, and then run xrootconsole on that, I should imagine. ?? Details are found there, IIRC. HTH, Kevin Kinsey -- I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool. -- Katharine Whitehorn