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Date:      Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:27:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        RPD <zula@webbernet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970219152557.1979E-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
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.

That's actually a very useful feature, not a bug.

Don't log in as root.  Create a user account for yourself and su to root 
when you need to do root stuff.


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."




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