title: Read console text from background application in Linux
body: <p>I am creating an application that will kick off on the standard runlevel and basically run forever.  It will produce some console output that I'd like to be able to read selectively.  Is there a "correct" way to do this in *nix? </p>
  
  <p>To be clear, the app will kick off as a background task.  I want to know if after it has started, I could "attach" and read the current messages being written to the console for that application.  I don't need the history, this would just be for debugging.</p>