Incoming from Christian Kollmann:
In grml dhclient is running in background to obtain an DHCP address on startup. But how do I know, when it has finished, and how can I execute some custom commands afterwards?
I *always* have xconsole running in my user session, so I know everything about what the box is doing.
- startx into user X session.
- from xterm (et al) "su" (no dash "-"), which lets your root login use your user's XSESSION.
- as root, "xconsole -file /dev/xconsole -daemon -notify -exitOnFail &"
Enjoy the pretty messages. You might want to play with some Xresources:
*XConsole*text.scrollHorizontal: true *XConsole*font: -*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-90-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 *XConsole*geometry: 596x114-4-4 *XConsole*foreground: wheat *XConsole*background: black *XConsole*scrollColor: wheat