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Old 12-26-2005, 10:32 PM
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Hai,

If I'm login to console I can see all message like dropped packets or bad login attempt or su login failed attempt, If I'm login from home to same server I'm not able to see console messages. I'm using freebsd 6.0
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Old 12-28-2005, 12:20 AM
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So you wanna see console messages over a remote login? Try age old tail -f command:
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tail -f /var/log/messages
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Better try
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tail -f /var/log/messages &
So you can keep working message keep coming
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You can also configure such behavior by make changes in /etc/syslog.conf file read man page and open configuration file
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