sys messages on X desktop

Ion-Mihai Tetcu itetcu at apropo.ro
Wed May 12 11:50:06 PDT 2004


On Wed, 12 May 2004 20:37:13 +0200
platanthera <platanthera at web.de> wrote:

> On Wednesday 12 May 2004 20:00, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 May 2004 19:47:47 +0200
> >
> > Martin Vana <martin.vana at vslib.cz> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I saw a screenshot and there was console running with sysmessages,
> > > how can I run such a console?
> > > thanx
> >
> > simple version (as root):
> > # tail -f /var/log/messages
> 
> you don't need to be root to monitor /var/log/messages. have a look at the 
> permissions of the different logfiles

Uh, yes; I forgot I changed some permissions.



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