From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 26 09:34:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA14644 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 09:34:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA14634 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 09:34:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id SAA09766; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 18:33:10 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 18:33:10 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Jose Monteiro cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: grabbing the console In-Reply-To: <342bd606.138025@mail.leirianet.pt> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA14640 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Jose Monteiro wrote: > Hi, > > I've configured syslog so that emerg.* and alert.* are displayed to > the console, but most of the time I work remotely. > > How can I receive console messages in the tty im logged to? Simply put your user name as the destination for the messages you want to receive (like root has for some entries in /etc/syslog.conf by default). This will make syslogd write these messages to your terminal whenever you login in as that user. See man syslog.conf. > Is there anyway I can grab the console remotely? > > Thanks. > > Jose > > > *--------------Jose Monteiro --------------* > | Pluriproj - Redes e Sistemas de Comunicacoes Lda. | > | Agente IP em Leiria http://www.pluriproj.pt | > *.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·* > | Tel: +351 44 8182063 Fax: +351 44 8182061 | > | Finger me or search key servers for my PGP public key | > *-----------------------------------------------------------* > Nadav