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Date:      Sun, 29 Jul 2001 06:06:19 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        john chan <rchitecture@home.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: error displaying on console
Message-ID:  <15203.60971.583044.421176@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <82076391@toto.iv>

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john chan <rchitecture@home.com> types:
> is there a way to sop error displaying on console, ie. maillog error,
> sendmail error
> when you log in as a regular user, the error won't display, when you log
> in as root/su,
> error keeps spitting on the screen, this symptoms also appear when you
> log out!

The best way to stop these messages is to not log in as root, log in
as a regular user and su.

If you really want to log in as root, check out the syslogd and
syslog.conf man pages.

	<mike

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