I am also looking into viewing cgminer console or log files, need to see if solo mining is working correctly since I am getting alot of rejected blocks, every one I find has been rejected, mining alt coins BTW.
thanks
You cannot see the console, it has been disabled at a code level.
I'm not sure what is meant by this, but it's fairly easy to get access to the cgminer console (text mode). All you need to do is log in, kill the current cgminer instance and launch a new one from the cli.
If you want to get fancy you can mod the cgminer init.d script to spawn each instance in a screen session as well.