From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 5: 2:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.ovh.net (b1.ovh.net [213.186.33.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BA4437B403 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 05:02:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1201 invoked by uid 503); 25 Jun 2002 12:01:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gueway.home) (212.43.212.24) by ns0.ovh.net with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 25 Jun 2002 12:01:21 -0000 Received: from greatoak.home (greatoak.home [192.168.1.2]) by gueway.home (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5PC27YL003988; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:02:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pcasidy@greatoak.home) Message-Id: <200206251202.g5PC27YL003988@gueway.home> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:04:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Philippe CASIDY Subject: Re: Support Request...vi related To: johand@jacqueshau.co.za Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3D18801A.11965.A98DF8@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25 Jun, Johan du Toit wrote: > Good Day! > > I am fairly new in the freeBSD arena and would like to raise this > simple question... > > How can I prevent system messages from scrolling while busy > editing a file in vi ?? It is nearly impossible doing it as you can > imagine. > Meanwhile, when such things happen, you can try to type -L. It will refresh the display of the terminal. The best thing is to setup your syslog.conf as you were seggested. Enjoy Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message