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Date:      Sat, 5 Feb 2005 02:51:34 -0800
From:      "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com>
To:        Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD@insightbb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Within X, how can I see console messages?
Message-ID:  <20050205105134.GL8619@alzatex.com>
In-Reply-To: <200502041201.06478.FreeBSD@insightbb.com>
References:  <200502041201.06478.FreeBSD@insightbb.com>

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On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:01:06PM -0500, 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?

In addition to xconsole, there is a command dmesg which outputs the last
4k of messages.  I run it if I suspect a problem and didn't have
xconsole running.  dmesg|tail helps limit the amount of messages.

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