Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 19:19:17 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A sort of plan for consoles in FreeBSD Message-ID: <1471.1148836757@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 May 2006 10:04:04 PDT." <4479D804.1060106@elischer.org>
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In message <4479D804.1060106@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes: >M. Warner Losh wrote: > >>In message: <4479C171.4050403@elischer.org> >> Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes: >>: killing XConsole is not a small matter. people have that when they are >>: specifically looking for that information >> >>Recall that this is only for programs that open /dev/console directly >>and write to it, like syslogd. > >the description makes it sound like xconsole would not be able to show >kernel error messages. xconsole is a hack anyway. the correct way would be to have way to connect to syslogd and subscribe to messages. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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