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I was wondering why I never get anything displayed in my xconsole?
I'm running kernel 2.0.27, RedHat 4.1, and I've installed WindowMaker.
Also, I'm logging into my system using XDM.

I expected to be able to see X startup messages, talk requests, and
definitely the window info that WindowMaker is supposed to give when
you double right click a title bar.  I don't see anything unless I do
something like "echo blahblahblah > /dev/console", so it seems to be
reading the console fine, it's just that nothing ever gets sent to it?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Michael Champagne

: > I was wondering why I never get anything displayed in my xconsole?
: > I'm running kernel 2.0.27, RedHat 4.1, and I've installed WindowMaker.
: > Also, I'm logging into my system using XDM.
: >
: > I expected to be able to see X startup messages, talk requests, and
: > definitely the window info that WindowMaker is supposed to give when
: > you double right click a title bar.  I don't see anything unless I do
: > something like "echo blahblahblah > /dev/console", so it seems to be
: > reading the console fine, it's just that nothing ever gets sent to it?
: >
: > Any help is greatly appreciated.
: >
: Try startx &>/dev/console. Works for me.
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that's fine for messages from the X server.  To get general system
stuff, look at the man pages for `sysklogd' and `syslog.conf' (on
Slackware systems, anyway; it's probably similar on RedHat systems).

Cheers,
Rob Komar

Quote:>I was wondering why I never get anything displayed in my xconsole?
>I'm running kernel 2.0.27, RedHat 4.1, and I've installed WindowMaker.
>Also, I'm logging into my system using XDM.

>I expected to be able to see X startup messages, talk requests, and
>definitely the window info that WindowMaker is supposed to give when
>you double right click a title bar.  I don't see anything unless I do
>something like "echo blahblahblah > /dev/console", so it seems to be
>reading the console fine, it's just that nothing ever gets sent to it?

>Any help is greatly appreciated.

Then I start Xfree with (bash):
alias ow='echo "Starting XFree86..." >| /dev/xconsole;startx -- -quiet -bpp \
16 2>|/dev/xconsole'

It's work great for me...i see why a program die and any message it send.

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                        Giovanni

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