How do I get a file ex: /var/log/messages to continualy be printed to a regular terminal?

[Scott]

I have something like this already set up on virtual terminals f9 thru f12 
(alt f9, atl f10, etc).  Here is the script that I run from cron 
everynight after log rotations are done:
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echo "Kill any tails that may be running"
#
ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep tail > /dev/null && ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep tail | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
#
echo "Enabling /dev/tty logging..."
tail -f /var/log/messages > /dev/tty9 &
tail -f /var/log/secure > /dev/tty10 &
tail -f /var/log/xferlog > /dev/tty11 &
tail -f /var/log/maillog > /dev/tty12 &
#
#tail -f /var/log/syslog > /dev/tty10 &
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And here is the cron entry:

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05 00 * * * /usr/local/sbin/log.to.ttys
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Of course, if you dont rotate your logs daily, adjust the cron entry as 
needed.

scott

On 4 Mar 2003, Entelin wrote:

> How do I get a file ex: /var/log/messages to continualy be printed to a
> regular terminal? (just a normal text mode terminal, not a external
> display or anything) I want to set up one window for messages, another
> for named.run, etc.. I dont want a login prompt or anything on it.
> 
> Thanks :)
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