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Wed May 7 10:49:10 NZST 2008


better -- they seem to have actually been through planning out how
removable devices work properly within the kernel and deal with
registration/deregistration of drives.

>On another virtual console  'tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages'  This 
>should display the last 10 lines (add '-n 20' for the last 20 lines) of 
>the messages file and refreshes the display every 3 seconds.  

Any particular reason you like to wait 3 seconds before looking again?
I tend to just do "tail -f ..." and let it scroll up as new things happen.
Sure it burns a little more CPU and disk I/O, but on a single user
machine the amount really isn't noticable.

Ewen



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