% > This reminds me, on the weekend i have tried running xconsole, and it
% > did *not* work, ...
%
% This NetBSD-amiga specific problem because it works fine with NetBSD-i386.
%
I'm running Xconsole without any problems myself. However, since I use
xdm, I run it when xdm starts up the X server.  If I remember correctly,
I had to make the xconsole program a setuid root binary.

%
% xterm -geometry 80x9+0+0 -font 6x13bold -title xconsole -e tail -f /var/log/me
ssages &
%

This would let you see the messages, but it won't prevent the screen from
getting currupted when syslogd prints stuff to the console.
If you don't want to run a setuid xconsole, then you can just edit
/etc/syslog.conf and modify the line that causes certain messages to get
sent to /dev/console.

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