Within X, how can I see console messages?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Feb 4 10:06:53 PST 2005


Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade at ub.edu.bz> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 06:13:01PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:
> > 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?
> > > 
> > >
> > xconsole
> > 
> > When xdm starts, xconsole gets started, too, on my machine,
> > I can't remember doing anything to get this behaviour, though.
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Benjamin
> 
> Keep in mind that /dev/console may only be readable by root.  You might
> have to change permissions on the device, or perhaps launch xconsole as
> the root user.  There may be other ways to get around this.  I just
> throw this into the mix as a problem that you may encounter.

The default xdm configuration runs xconsole from Xsetup (which runs as
root) before starting the user's startup script.


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