From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 04:24:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA17066 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 03:48:24 -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 DAA16917 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 03:48:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id XAA19244 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 23:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00433; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 23:08:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 23:08:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu 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: > 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..... I suppose you could edit syslogd.conf and change it, but an easier way to do it (and preserve the important messages) is to just use the next virtual terminal over with ALT-F2. (note that alt-F3 will get you yet another vty) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major