> I personally don't think that specifying a term as console shows you > anything all that interesting - at least, it never has for me. > > OTOH, if you do a "tail -f /var/log/syslog" in a transparent Eterm, and > park it in the corner of your screen, you have a very cool XConsole. > Pipe it through a log-colouriser, and it's even cooler.
all this means is that you need to configure what gets log'd to /dev/xconsole (or /dev/console depending on your config). you can dump the same info that goes to syslog to your console ... plus other stuff if you so desire. adam.
