>  how can i send the  /var/log/messages on a designated terminal?
>  i remember some many years ago i saw on of SAs having messages file to 11
> or 10 terminal from the moment machine booted. The gain - they just switch
> to it instead of typing "tail ....".

Perhaps an entry in /etc/rsyslog.conf to direct messages of the
desired type to /dev/tty11?

>I don't practice this myself, but I suspect an entry in /etc/inittab like this would
>suffice:
>tty11::respawn:/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages

That might run into problems when the messages log file rolls over.

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