[ale] displaying stdout in X root window

Christopher Bergeron christopher at bergeron.com
Sun Jan 12 16:39:20 EST 2003


Do you mean xconsole?  It displays log messages in X...  Also, if you 
want to get fancy, you could use xOSD (xosd_cat is the executable i 
think) to display them in a purrty way over your X session.

-CB



Matty wrote:

> Mike Panetta wrote:
>
>> I think there is one called roottail?
>
>
> Does anyone have a URL for the roottail distro site? RedHat 8.0 doesn't
> ship with this (at least I can't find it), and google shows a bunch of 
> adhoc RPMs.
>
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 18:44, John Wells wrote:
>>
>>> Awhile back, someone sent me a link to a utility that would allow 
>>> you to
>>> display a log file in the root window and refresh it occasionally.  
>>> Anyone
>>> know what this is called?  I lost the link.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> John
>>
>
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