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From: mike@apex.yorku.ca (Mike Marques)
Subject: /dev/xcons 
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 22:36:26 GMT

Greetings...

Where do I get information about /dev/xcons?

I tried adding the following to my rc.local:

# Direct console output to /usr/adm/messages
tail -f /dev/xcons >>/usr/adm/messages &

It worked fine and the boot process was recorded on that file.
However after the boot was completed and X windows started up output
to the console stopped showing up on that file.  In fact console
output didn't go anywhere anymore.   I killed the tail -f on
/dev/xcons and that didn't help.   

My idea was to have console output recorded to a file and then have
processed intersted on console output read the /usr/adm/messages file. 
Is there a better way of doing this?  (I tried a cat of /dev/xcons but
cat just exits after the first message shows up.

							Mike


p.s.  Oh yeah, I'm running Ultrix 4.2 on DECstation 2100
      (Hey, who protected /dev/console?  ;-) )

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