Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:06:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: RPD <zula@webbernet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970219180500.13952A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970219205250.0067e810@mail.webbernet.net>
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On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, RPD wrote: > I am having trouble figuring out this.. Every time someone logs on to my > system I get it accross my screen.. Lets say I am working in bash.. just > making dir's and someone logs on to my system.. well when they log on.. it > posts a mesg on my terminal that they logged in. It does the same thing > with popper when users access there mail.. I am tring to turn it off so it > does not post the mesg. These are standard console messages. Either use one of your virtual terminals (hit alt-f1) or edit /etc/syslog.conf. The advantage of always using vty1 is that you can use scrollback (scroll-lock & up arrow) to see the past console messages without logging in and looking at /var/log/messages. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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