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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