redirect /dev/console to a file

Kevin Kinsey kdk at daleco.biz
Tue Mar 27 02:04:57 UTC 2007


Neil Short wrote:
> I'd like to redirect /dev/console to some file that
> can be read by the xrootconsole port.
> 
> Is this ambition feasible?
> 
> I like the functionality of xconsole; but it's not
> very pretty.
>

According to the default /etc/syslog.conf, you should
be able to enable syslogd to log to a file, and then
run xrootconsole on that, I should imagine. ??

Details are found there, IIRC.

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey
-- 
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