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Author: technomage
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Subject: how do I get a display of the kernel log to appear via xterm?
I'd rather be able to do it without having to tail a log file. basically, I
was direct access to the tty that the kernel uses to report dtat to syslogd.

any way to do that other than with tail -f?

Mage

On Monday 11 August 2003 06:20 am, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > 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
>
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