console log only couple lines

[Shemp Stielhope]

Quote: Originally Posted by hisara Thanks. These unix commands are too kinky to my skills. If i want to get entire Console log to text file, how i do that? If i just use some of those above syslog codes, then i lose rest of the Console messages from that point to next rotation. And if i do it every hour, then i still lose on average 30 minutes worth of Console messages when its rotated?

syslog -C > /tmp/console.log; view /tmp/console.log