Re: Showing /dev/tty12 (or similar) syslog output in screen window

[Nikolai Weibull]

On 6/20/06, Michael Schroeder
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 05:21:35PM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> > >> Anyway, let's assume then that I don't write my messages to
> > >> /var/log/messages and only write them to /dev/tty12 (or a similar
> > >> device).  Now, how do I display the output sent to terminal /dev/tty12
> > >> (or similar) in a window in screen?
> >
> > >Not entirely sure but I don't think that is possible.
> >
> > Probably not, no, but as I don't know I asked.
>
> If it's just console output you're looking for you can try
> 'console on'...

Ah, that would have worked if /dev/console wasn't 0600 and owned by
root:tty.  I guess sudoing a tail is the best (read: only viable) way
to do this then...

 nikolai