From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 19:09:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E84F16A4CE for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:09:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.sbfnet.com (mail.sbfnet.com [12.18.252.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1959D43D1D for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:09:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keving@sbfnet.com) Received: from administrator ([90.1.2.37]) by mail.sbfnet.com (SBF Mail Services) with SMTP id AAE74724; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:08:58 -0700 From: "Kevin Glick" To: "'Lynette Tillner'" Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:08:01 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-Reply-To: <001501c4b151$61ee96f0$0601a8c0@M2> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Thread-Index: AcSxUVzD8rFHSB0mQzGZ1pSLWNjFgAABfAxw Message-Id: <20041013190901.1959D43D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: how do I suppress system messages? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:09:01 -0000 Lynette, System messages print out to the console on tty0 only, by default. If you want to use the console, switch to tty1 or above. Do this by ALT+2(tty1), ALT+3(tty2), etc. When you're in Vi, and syslog prints across the screen, using CTRL+L will re-draw the screen, and remove the syslog messages. If you want to get rid of the messages altogether, look into disabling syslogd, via /etc/rc.conf. (Man syslogd, or check /etc/defaults/rc.conf for syslogd. Kevin Glick ITS Manager Sterling Business Forms keving@sbfnet.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Lynette Tillner Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:21 AM To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: how do I suppress system messages? This is something that drives me crazy but I've not been able to find a way to stop it. When I log into my FreeBSD 4.6 Web Server as root, I get messages from sendmail that I can't suppress with dmesg. They are a real pain because they even come across the screen when I'm using VI to edit files and then I can't figure out the line I was in the middle of editing, and end up doing a :q! and starting over, very frustrating because we get tons of mail and it seems like I can't do anything as root because of these messages. Is there a command that will suppress the messages? I remember being able to do that when I was working on an HP-UX system but haven't figured it out under FreeBSD. Thanks for any help! Lynette _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"