Take a look at `xconsole' and `xterm -c' in the X man pages.

On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:

> In another piece that i don't quite understand, i'm trying to figure out 
> if i can remap console messages to X rather than the text screen.
> 
> If I log in, then startx, messages such as buffer overflows, su success 
> & failure, and any other system messages print to the original text 
> console, scrolling the whole X environment.  I know I can dispose of 
> this by sending them off to a file, but there's some that could be 
> important.  Is there a way to change the console messages to the "login" 
> xterm?
> 
> rick
> 

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