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Q: how to use vt4 and vt6 to display syslog and maillog?
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| Sébastien Millet 2006-11-26, 7:12 pm |
| Hello,
what's the best way to make vitual terminals 4 and 5 display
/var/log/syslog and /var/log/mail.log, respectively?
I tried stuff like replacing getty with "tail -f /var/log/syslog" in
/etc/inittab but got broken result (the LOGs would never get displayed
actually).
Gros Loup
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| s. keeling 2006-11-26, 7:12 pm |
| Sébastien Millet <sebastien. millet1_at_club_tiret_internet_point_fr@
ci.fr>:
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> what's the best way to make vitual terminals 4 and 5 display
> /var/log/syslog and /var/log/mail.log, respectively?
Have you looked at /etc/syslog.conf? The one that came with my Debian
system includes:
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# I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual
# console I usually leave idle.
#
#daemon,mail.*;\
# news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
# *.=debug;*.=info;\
# *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty8
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Now, you just have to figure out what's going to syslog and mail.log
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| Mumia W. (reading news) 2006-11-26, 7:12 pm |
| On 11/26/2006 01:42 PM, Sébastien Millet wrote:
> Hello,
>
> what's the best way to make vitual terminals 4 and 5 display
> /var/log/syslog and /var/log/mail.log, respectively?
> I tried stuff like replacing getty with "tail -f /var/log/syslog" in
> /etc/inittab but got broken result (the LOGs would never get displayed
> actually).
>
> Gros Loup
I think you can direct logging messages to a console or tty by
configuring syslogd using syslog.conf.
man syslog.conf
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