Matt Hyclak wrote:

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:06:03PM -0400, Ted Miller enlightened us:

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I am migrating from Mandriva to Centos (currently running dual boot). One thing I miss on Centos is being able to switch to Console 12 and see system messages in real time. My IPCop firewall has this turned on as well. Is this a setting I can change, or a program I can add, or is it not available?

The change can be made in /etc/syslog.conf

Thanks. Got it running once you pointed me to the correct man page. Having no idea what it is called (and never having any reason to look at syslog.conf before) I was clueless where to start.

Ted Miller

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The change can be made in /etc/syslog.conf

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I was clueless where to start.

On my system:

Insert (or activate) in /etc/syslog.conf

kern.* /dev/console

and all kernel-messages appear on /dev/console

(Ctl+Alt+F1 on my machine)

Mandrake uses: local1.* -/var/log/explanations *.* /dev/tty12

and IPCop uses: *.* /dev/tty12

Many of us log into /dev/tty1 on a regular basis, and if your graphical login fails, you will end up at tty1 after you change your init level. I don't want all the informational messages over-writing my attempt to try to figure out what went wrong with my graphical login. Also, tty12 does not have the resources assigned to it to make it a login screen. tty12 is a much better place for the messages.

Ted Miller