how do I get a display of the kernel log to appear via xterm…

\_ SMTP quoth Kevin Brown on 8/11/2003 06:20 as having spake thusly:
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\_ > 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?
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\_ 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