From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 5 10:51:37 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 1DBF016A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:51:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A3443D2D for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:51:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j15ApZGf020383 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 5 Feb 2005 02:51:35 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id j15ApYOD020381; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 02:51:34 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 02:51:34 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: Steven Friedrich Message-ID: <20050205105134.GL8619@alzatex.com> References: <200502041201.06478.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502041201.06478.FreeBSD@insightbb.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Within X, how can I see console messages? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 10:51:37 -0000 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. > -- > i386 FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C