Re: How to show system messages

[Jeff Shipman <shippy nmt edu>]

You can:

1) Check the timestamp of the file

2) Use 'tail -f filename' and it will constantly
   update whenever something is added.

Jeff "Shippy" Shipman     E-Mail: shippy nmt edu
Computer Science Major    ICQ: 1786493
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Homepage: http://www.nmt.edu/~shippy

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Carlos Toledo wrote:

> Hello, i want to ask you more than a problem with gtk, a problem with C.
> I want to do a messages console that shows the file /var/log/messages but
> I have the problem that this file grows with all messages and when I have
> read it, there is more information on this file. How can I do to know when
> is new information whithout read the file all time or looking the size?
>
> Thanks for your help
> (sorry for my horrible english)
>
>
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