From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 22 22:31:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F29037B4C5 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:31:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:30:19 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAN6Vl964526; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:31:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:31:47 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Jason Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freaking charlie root Message-ID: <20001122223147.L12190@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <3A1C9B27.4B541E68@satx.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3A1C9B27.4B541E68@satx.rr.com>; from blaz@satx.rr.com on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:20:55PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:20:55PM -0600, Jason wrote: > howdy, > > i take full responsibility for being root. how can i redirect the log > msgs from appearing > in my xterms or console as root? i want them just to show up in xterm > -C, and not > every other freaking terminal. this has to be possible, and any help > would be > appreciated. $ man syslog.conf . . . The action field of each line specifies the action to be taken when the selector field selects a message. There are five forms: . . . o A comma separated list of users. Selected messages are written to those users if they are logged in. $ grep root /etc/syslog.conf *.err root *.notice;news.err root *.alert root -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message