A real-time log viewer
October 14th, 2005 by George Notaras
It’s very useful, when testing things, to have syslog messages appear in real-time on the screen. This way there is no need to check /var/log/messages all the time.
It’s really simple to set up something like this. You only need to append the following line to your /etc/syslog.conf:
*.* /dev/tty9
Remember to use tabs instead of spaces. Then save and restart the syslog service:
# service syslog restart
From now on, by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F9 you can watch all the info that goes to syslog in real-time.
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