USB Device info from terminal

[James Kerr]

On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 23:53 +0330, amr wrote: 
> On 1/1/2011 5:26 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > On 01/01/2011 02:18 PM, amr wrote:
> >> Hi everybody
> >> In fedora 10 and below, When I was at Terminal and attached a USB device
> >> to my computer, It prints the device info in the Terminal such as
> >> Manufacture, Device driver in use and so on...
> >> but in fedora 12 and 13 It doesn't work
> >> How can I enable it?
> >>
> >
> > You mean that?
> >
> > yum install usbutils
> >
> >
> 
> No, it was something like message from system, it also print any 
> warnings about my system (Such as hard disk fail).
> 

This may be what you want:

Open a terminal, become root and enter:

tail -f /var/log/messages

You can end the display by pushing Ctrl+c. 

Jim