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Mike Jackson wrote:

> I pipe those, and other messages to a virtual terminal, like this:
>
>syslog.conf
>--
>*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice            /dev/ttyv3
>  
>
... and then what do you do with this virtual terminal?  Just check 
alt+f3 every so often?

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