\_ SMTP quoth Kevin Brown on 8/11/2003 06:20 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ > The subject pretty much says it all.
\_ > I want to be able to access the live syslog and have it display to the current 
\_ > term while it is also writing to disk. any commands to do this?
\_ 
\_ tail -f /var/log/messages

Also sometimes amusing is

tail -f /var/log/messages > /dev/tty8

to have them display on virtual terminal 8

Unless, of course, I missed on the the characters in the dev entry.
:-)

David