Re: tlug: Error/status messages

["Eric S. Standlee" <fwiw3980@example.com>]

In SunOS you could run a "console" which was just a term window with
?uucp? turned on or something like that...  Anyone know this better?

Eric S. Standlee
Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan
e-w.standlee@example.com
fwiw3980@example.com <default>

On Sun, 20 Sep 1998 craigoda@example.com wrote:

> From: Neil Booth <NeilB@example.com>
> Subject: tlug: Error/status messages
> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 17:39:08 +0900
> 
> NeilB> When running under X, if I run some software and it emits errors or
> NeilB> messages, I don't see them until I exit X, and even then a lot tend to
> NeilB> have scrolled off the screen.
> NeilB> 
> NeilB> Is there a way to have an xterm instance running to which all such
> NeilB> output is directed, so I can see it while still being in the windowing
> NeilB> environment? Or something similar?
> NeilB> 
> NeilB> Hope my query is clear.
> 
> There are probably several ways to do this.  Under xdm, I think there is
> the option to have a console that has the error messages.  If you start
> X with something like 
> 
>   $ startx
> 
> you can do 
> 
> 1)  $ startx > X.log  2>&1
> 
> Then within an xterm do
> 
> 2)  $ tail -f X.log
> 
> 
> Explanation:
> 1) run the standard startx script, but direct both standard output
> and standard error to the file X.log 
> 
> 2) print a continuous listing of the contents of the file X.log.  Since
> the file X.log can grow with additional error messages, the -f flag is used
> to specifiy that tail not exit when it reaches the end of the file.
> 
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