From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 04:24:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA17022 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 03:48:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA16898 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 03:48:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tulpi.interconnect.com.au (root@tulpi.interconnect.com.au [192.189.54.18]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id XAA19300 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 23:28:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ahill@localhost) by tulpi.interconnect.com.au id QAA04729 (8.7.6/IDA-1.6); Mon, 30 Sep 1996 16:26:39 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 16:26:38 +1000 (EST) From: Anthony Hill To: Keith Leonard cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: messages mess up display In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Keith Leonard wrote: > Howdy, > I am probably asking a stupid question but - after a lot of work I have > 2.1.5 working on my machine (486DX4 with 32megs ram and a 824 meg HD). I > love it (once I caught on to the rationale), however no matter how I log > on (root or keithl (wheel group)) I keep getting these anoying (sp?) > messages about loggings and changes , etc. poping up on the display, which > of course messes up the file (visually) that I'm working on. I realize to > get rid of it (on the screen) I just need to cursor past the message and > back to where I was - BUT PLEEEEASE..... > > Any way to disable this message thingee? Have a look at /etc/syslog.conf regards, Anthony Hill ahill@connect.com.au