On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 12:34:01AM +1100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, Alex generated:
>
> > tailf /var/log/messages
> >is it hard to make the computer auto login on that terninal leaviing
> >F1,2,3,4 etc normal..
> >i asume i would want to make this user only be able to run this program how
> >is that achieved???
>
> What you might want to do instead is insert the following into
> /etc/syslog.conf:
>
> *.* /dev/tty12
alternatively, change the line in /etc/inittab that says what runs on
console 6 to:
6:2345:once:/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages > /dev/tty6
and then get init to reload it
(see init(8) and inittab(5))
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- Gus
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