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From: werner@nikhefk.UUCP (Werner Vogels)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How to redirect console output ?
Keywords: xdm, console, redirection.
Message-ID: <568@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jul 89 19:39:40 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-K, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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   We have SUN 3/50's, a SUN4/110, Vaxstation 200's and a set of IBM
   RT  running  AOS/4.3.  Until we started with X11R3 on most of the
   machine you had to start X with xinit. On the vaxstations we here
   able  to  run  X from the /etc/ttys file.  But with the new X11R3
   environment we would like to use xdm on all our work- stations.
   
   But we ran into a problem here. How do you redirect your  console
   output  so that it doen't messup the root window ????. If our sun
   fileserver has a lot a filsystem messages it writes them over the
   xdm  login  window and thereis no way you can refresh the screen.
   It is the same when I am working and root logs into my machine: a
   big fat warning over all my windows.
   
   My question is: how can I redirect console output  when xdm   lo-
   gin is running and how can I redirect the ouput when i am working
   to my first(console) xterm.
   
   Thanks for your help,
   
   Werner Vogels
   Haagse Hogeschool,
   Software Expertise Centrum
   email: werner@hhinsi or werner@nikhefk