From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 4 18:00:39 2005 Return-Path: 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 D272516A4D2 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:00:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8609343D4C for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:00:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nkinkade@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F42C5443A; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:00:13 -0500 (EST) X-Sasl-enc: tQwsFnpGacM3nbIgXjAfpg 1107540012 Received: from gentoo-npk.bmp.ub (unknown [206.27.244.136]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29DF7570326; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:00:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from nkinkade by gentoo-npk.bmp.ub with local (Exim 4.21) id 1Cx7kR-0001hg-G9; Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:00:03 -0600 Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:00:03 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade To: Steven Friedrich , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050204180003.GH8365@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Mail-Followup-To: Steven Friedrich , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200502041201.06478.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <4203AD1D.1090203@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="poemUeGtc2GQvHuH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4203AD1D.1090203@gmx.net> X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3FDF A406 B149 3959 A8CB C5A9 3B46 4812 D852 7E49 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Subject: Re: Within X, how can I see console messages? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nathan Kinkade List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 18:00:40 -0000 --poemUeGtc2GQvHuH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 06:13:01PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > Steven Friedrich wrote: >=20 > >I know I can Control-Alt-F1 to go back to the console, but is there a wa= y=20 > >to see these messages in an xterm or something? > >=20 > > > xconsole >=20 > When xdm starts, xconsole gets started, too, on my machine, > I can't remember doing anything to get this behaviour, though. >=20 > Kind regards, > Benjamin Keep in mind that /dev/console may only be readable by root. You might have to change permissions on the device, or perhaps launch xconsole as the root user. There may be other ways to get around this. I just throw this into the mix as a problem that you may encounter. Nathan --poemUeGtc2GQvHuH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCA7gjO0ZIEthSfkkRAklLAKDyYmgFC+nzPwMKBUspEGtUVGdbcQCgwkes 8eQcwvKVz6yXdykP/JFtPHU= =AskC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --poemUeGtc2GQvHuH--