Rob Townley wrote: > dmesg > dmesg.log > > or > > cd /var/log/ > ls -lat | more > > i liked the old days when dmesg, /var/log/messages and other syslog stuff > was displayed automatically on a tty console. I tried a softlink from > /var/log/messages to tty9, but didn't have any luck. Would it require a tee > or a mod to dmesg? Should be able to control this in your syslog configuration, I prefer syslog-ng myself, but the regular old syslog can do this too I believe. >From my Debian Etch's /etc/syslog.conf # # I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual # console I usually leave idle. # #daemon,mail.*;\ # news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\ # *.=debug;*.=info;\ # *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty8 nate