Re: [gdm-list] gdm_common_debug()?

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Andrew:

> If not using syslog, how does a person see the output of 
> gdm_common_debug() in, for example, gui/gdmlogin.c?  The code says it 
> prints it to stdout, but I am not certain where to see that.
>
> I think I am using a local static display.

syslog just means that the output goes to your system log, which is
normally /var/log/messages (or /var/adm/messages on some distros).
Check to see if messages are being appended to this file with "gdm"
as the program, should look like this (note "gdm" after the username
column:

Aug 15 16:28:59 username gdm[20913]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Couldn't 
authenticate user

Note you must have debug enabled in the GDM configuration for this to
work.  Run gdmsetup and make sure debug in the Security tab is checked.

If your system isn't set up to send system messages to syslog, then
I'm not sure where the GDM debug messages would go, probably to
/dev/null.  Probably would require some serious hacking on GDM to get
the messages to appear elsewhere.

Brian