Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 02:51:34 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@insightbb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Within X, how can I see console messages? Message-ID: <20050205105134.GL8619@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <200502041201.06478.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> References: <200502041201.06478.FreeBSD@insightbb.com>
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On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:01:06PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I know I can Control-Alt-F1 to go back to the console, but is there a way to > see these messages in an xterm or something? In addition to xconsole, there is a command dmesg which outputs the last 4k of messages. I run it if I suspect a problem and didn't have xconsole running. dmesg|tail helps limit the amount of messages. > -- > i386 FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C
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