From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 4 18:14:18 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 753F016A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:14:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91.asp.att.net [204.127.203.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E036343D45 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:14:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.hauber@mchsi.com) Received: from wizard.valleygate.net (12-219-204-24.client.mchsi.com[12.219.204.24]) by sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91) with ESMTP id <20050204181417m9100ovb9se>; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:14:17 +0000 From: Mike Hauber To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:16:52 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200502041201.06478.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> <4203AD1D.1090203@gmx.net> <20050204180003.GH8365@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <20050204180003.GH8365@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502041316.53001.m.hauber@mchsi.com> cc: Steven Friedrich 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: m.hauber@mchsi.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 18:14:18 -0000 On Friday 04 February 2005 01:00 pm, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 06:13:01PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > > 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? > > > > xconsole > > > > When xdm starts, xconsole gets started, too, on my machine, > > I can't remember doing anything to get this behaviour, > > though. This is setup automatically, and can be configured/removed from /usr/X11R6/lib/Xsetup_0. The command is as follows (it will probably wrap): xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail > > > > 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 I'm not running as root and I'm not having any problems issuing the following command with xterm: xconsole -daemon -notify -verbose -exitOnFail Of course, you'd probably prefer creating a link to the application for your Desktop and/or menu. Hope that helps, Mike