Willie Wong wrote: > Those are ANSI escape codes. My google-fu is not up to telling me how > to set xconsole to ignore them, but it seems possible that xconsole > just cannot handle ANSI codes?
Yes, that's what I was afraid of... However, it seems many people uses xconsole a bit differently by creating a /dev/xconsole pipe (fifo) and getting syslog to pipe information to that and letting the program xconsole to read from that fifo (xconsole -file /dev/xconsole)... I found this: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/xconsole_setup.txt > A workaround may be to set RC_NOCOLOR="yes" in /etc/conf.d/rc That may work, but I upgraded X yesterday and the start order of xdm has changed (previously it was started right after networking, IIRC); now it starts right before "local". My main interest in xconsole was to see if ntp-client was started correctly and since the new order displays ntp ok/nok on the console before xdm starts, xconsole seems a bit redundant... Thanks anyway! Happy new year! Best regards Peter K
