Viewing the console from X

Henry Spencer henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
Mon Dec 20 21:37:17 UTC 2004


On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, William O'Higgins wrote:
> Is there a way that I can open up a window to "tail -f" the underlying
> console?

The -C option to xterm tells it to try to open a window that receives
console output.  Haven't checked lately whether this works in Linux...

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org


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