From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 25 13:21:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA12207 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:21:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rosie.scsn.net (scsn.net [206.25.246.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA12197 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhiannon.scsn.net (cola93.scsn.net [206.25.247.93]) by rosie.scsn.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-13529) with ESMTP id AAA42; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:20:29 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by rhiannon.scsn.net (8.8.2/8.6.12) id QAA00296; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:21:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donald J. Maddox" Message-Id: <199610252021.QAA00296@rhiannon.scsn.net> Subject: Re: Console messages in an xterm In-Reply-To: <28612.199610251513@crocus.csv.warwick.ac.uk> from Mr M P Searle at "Oct 25, 96 04:13:16 pm" To: csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M P Searle) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:21:28 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: dmaddox@scsn.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > How can I get the messages that would normally appear on ttyv0 to appear in an rxvt/xterm? Xconsole isn't really what I want - it's a separate window, and only shows console messages, not ordinary messages that are sent there as they are from stuff that has loaded from .xinitrc (startx is in my login) > > I tried watch, but it needs an extra device, which isn't in either /dev/MAKEDEV or /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/devices.something (the file of major device numbers, so I could do a mknod) > > What I really want I guess is to boot from an xterm , is this possible? > > Thanks, Michael. >From xterm.1: ----------------------------------------------------------------- -C This option indicates that this window should receive console output. This is not supported on all systems. To obtain console output, you must be the owner of the console device, and you must have read and write permission for it. If you are running X under xdm on the console screen you may need to have the session startup and reset pro- grams explicitly change the ownership of the con- sole device in order to get this option to work. ----------------------------------------------------------------- For more details, `man xterm`. Hope this helps... -- Donald J. Maddox (dmaddox@scsn.net)