On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 01:23:41PM +0200, Geula Stoliar wrote: > >I think you must see your syslog.conf > >man syslog.conf > > I defined kern.* to go to /dev/console in syslog.conf and now, printk messages appear on the screen, but only when I open a direct console window on the linux box itself. > > Is there a way to get them to display on any current terminal I am > on at the moment, such as a telnet/ssh session or Xwindows terminal? Default way to get them is to user a named pipe /dev/xconsole and have syslog write to it. In syslog.conf: kern.* |/dev/xconsole In X, you just start xconsole: xconsole -notify -nostdin -verbose -execOnFail -file /dev/xconsole -fn fixed & Or even easier: cat /dev/xconsole . Erik -- Erik Mouw J.A.K.Mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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