sys messages on X desktop

[platanthera]

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 20:00, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004 19:47:47 +0200
>
> Martin Vana <martin.vana at vslib.cz> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I saw a screenshot and there was console running with sysmessages,
> > how can I run such a console?
> > thanx
>
> simple version (as root):
> # tail -f /var/log/messages

you don't need to be root to monitor /var/log/messages. have a look at the 
permissions of the different logfiles