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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need More Answers ... Look here !
Date: 20 Mar 1997 18:25:33 GMT
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In article <01bc34ab$b59c42a0$664c1bcc@tony.gcr1.com>,
	"Tony" <tony@gcr1.com> writes:
> Here are a few thing I'm still trying to find out ...
> 
> Can you direct the console to a telnet session ..? not just login and look
> around ..
> I'd like to be able to see daemons coming up and shutting down .. and see
> error
> messages that only show up at the console ...

man syslog.conf.  If you log in as user "tony", you can put an entry
in there saying

*.err;*.notice;auth.debug;*.alert tony

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !