From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 12 08:10:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64FC216A401 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:10:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sys@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E929C43D48 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:10:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sys@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 32542 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2006 12:24:11 +1000 Received: from andromeda.lef.com.au (HELO localhost) (210.8.93.2) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 10 Apr 2006 12:24:11 +1000 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:22:47 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: "Logan McNaughton" Message-ID: <20060410122247.3848aedc@localhost> In-Reply-To: <6d356f6c0603290903g28394323p7756cdda05135191@mail.gmail.com> References: <6d356f6c0603290903g28394323p7756cdda05135191@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.0 (GTK+ 2.8.16; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terminal in the background 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: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:10:53 -0000 On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:03:34 -0700 "Logan McNaughton" wrote: > I just > want to be able to see system shutdown notices and the likes. xconsole? :) I know it doesn't got to the X's root. maybe you can use something like torsmo (or some other app) to read what gets written to /dev/console (which is where those messages get written to) B --