[394] in athena10
Re: Desupporting the Console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Aug 6 22:01:50 2008
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>
Cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>,
athena10@mit.edu
From: ucko@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:01:04 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200808061755.m76HtoqI027940@byte-me.mit.edu> (Mitchell E. Berger's message of "Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:55:50 -0400")
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Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Aside from the standard startup messages you see in the console on
> login, it's currently used to get important syslogs to you, for example,
> the ones that pop up when someone logs in as root under you. I'm
> unhappy about the idea of that going away without a replacement. Do
> we have an alternative way to support that feature?
I use xconsole to display system messages on my personal systems.
However, I ran into some trouble getting it to interact well with gdm,
even with KillInitClients disabled, and wound up punting to xdm, which
may be too retro for Athena 10; I presume workalikes would likewise
run into trouble. (Then again, I last tested a while ago, and didn't
try as hard as I perhaps could have because I was okay with falling
back on xdm, so there may still be hope.)
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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