Re: Bit Twister: Is this the dhclient-exit-hooks you were talking about?

Ohmster <nowayin@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:Xns984779CC7C2C8MyBigKitty@xxxxxxxxxxxx:

What am I doing wrong, how come that did not work bit? What you have
going on there sounds really neat and I would like to try it. What is
the "wb:0" part do?

Oh it works if I do this:

xconsole -file /var/log/messages -daemon

Then it makes a tiny window of very fast scrolling lines until it catches
up and then sits there reporting the messages file in real time. I can
then resize the window to any size I want and it works. Ugly font and
colors though. I would much prefer a nice black window with a lighter
color font on it but there seems to be no options on how to do that. I
would also be nice if I could specify the window size like you did. No
options for it that I can see...

man xconsole
XCONSOLE(1)
XCONSOLE(1)

NAME
xconsole - monitor system console messages with X

SYNOPSIS
xconsole [-toolkitoption ...] [-file file-name] [-notify] [-
stripNonprint] [-daemon] [-verbose] [-exitOnFail]

DESCRIPTION
The xconsole program displays messages which are usually sent to
/dev/console.

OPTIONS
Xconsole accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line
options along with the additional options listed below:

-file file-name
To monitor some other device, use this option to specify
the device name. This does not work on regular files as
they are always ready to be read from.

-notify -nonotify
When new data are received from the console and the notify
option is set, the icon name of the application has " *"
appended, so that it is evident even when the application
is iconified. -notify is the default.

-daemon This option causes xconsole to place itself in the
background, using fork/exit.

-verbose
When set, this option directs xconsole to display an
informative message in the first line of the text buffer.

-exitOnFail
When set, this option directs xconsole to exit when it is
unable to redirect the console output.

-saveLines count
When set, xconsole only preserves count lines of message
history instead of growing the text buffer without bound
(a count of zero - the default - is treated as placing no
limit on the history).

X DEFAULTS
This program uses the Athena Text widget, look in the Athena
Widget Set documentation for controlling it.

Xconsole otherwise accepts resources of the same names as the
command-line options (without the leading dash). "file" is a
string type, "saveLines" an integer, and the remaining options are
booleans.

WIDGETS
In order to specify resources, it is useful to know the
hierarchy of the widgets which compose xconsole. In the notation
below, indentation indicates hierarchical structure. The widget
class name is given first, followed by the widget instance
name.

XConsole xconsole
XConsole text

ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.

XENVIRONMENT
to get the name of a resource file that overrides the
global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.

FILES
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XConsole
specifies required resources

SEE ALSO
X(7x), xrdb(1), Athena Text widget

AUTHOR
Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium)

Yeah, this xconsole would be a really nice thing to have opened on my
desktop when I use it, for sure. Neat idea bit.

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