Thanks for your help in the matter. It turns out that the version of eterm I was using did not have the patch in it to look at /dev/xconsole instead of /dev/console. I contacted the maintaner and he hooked me up. I didn't quite get to the point of changing the structure of syslog.conf... but I did find out that the system doesn't boot properly if you change the symboloic link of /dev/console -> /dev/tty0 to /dev/console -> /dev/xconsole. Not good.
--- Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My problem is in getting Eterm to grab the console messages. I > have > > tried suid root, I have tried to run Eterm as root. I have even > tried > > to change the owener of /dev/console. Nothing works... the Eterm > just > > opens up and gives me a command prompt (normal Eterm usage). Is > there > > anything I am overlookiing? I am stumped! I know it can be > done... > > not to point out the obvious or anything but have you made sure that > you're > actually loging stuff to /dev/console? check your /etc/syslog.conf > file for > a line like this: > > daemon.*;mail.*;\ > news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ > *.=debug;*.=info;\ > *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/console > > adam. > > > > ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- Academia is a little like child | Parrish M. Myers rearing, it provides a chance at | The Wacked Jester immortality without the stretch | [EMAIL PROTECTED] marks -- (unknown source) | ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com