From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 10:43:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from westga.edu (westga.edu [160.10.4.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D37155F7 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stu12915@westga.edu) Received: from localhost by westga.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2/TSS-usg.m4_1.17-x[29Jan1999]) with ESMTP id NAA02967 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:39:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:39:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Edwin Rudolph To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Console messages and Telnet login message Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Two questions: 1: What controls all the messages that are displayed on the console (i.e., root login, failed logins, etc.) and is there a way to redirect that somewhere or turn it off?? 2: I've installed FreeBSD a few times on my machine at home and sometimes telnet to it from my laptop, or even telnet locally and have never seen this before--when it gives me a login prompt, I don't see the usual FreeBSD/i386 (ttyp0) login: but something like this: / (ttyp0) login: Really just an annoyance, but I can't figure out how it happened. I thought perhaps it was something in one of the terminal related files like termcap or ttys but I haven't changed anything in those files (and then again, I wouldn't know what to look for...) Any ideas? ER To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message