From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 5: 6:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hrappur.solver.is (hrappur.solver.is [194.144.170.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D47537B86B for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 05:06:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd@hrappur.solver.is) Received: from gaze (really [194.144.170.5]) by hrappur.solver.is via smail with smtp id (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:19:58 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <012101bf9a40$3de25210$05aa90c2@solver.is> From: =?Windows-1252?Q?Ari_Sigur=F0sson?= To: References: <22046.954420145@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Subject: Re: messages on screen Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:05:28 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sorry if I forgot to mention that I'm not rather new to unix what is vty and HUP signal? and where is best to find such information if this is something I sould not be bothering this list with.... another question, how do I change group so I don't get "su : you are not in the correct group to su root." Thanks Ari Siguršsson > You can edit /etc/syslog.conf so that nothing goes to /dev/console. > This is a bad idea. Rather use another vty. > > See the syslog.conf(5) manual page for details. Don't forget to send > syslogd a HUP signal so that it rereads /etc/syslog.conf after you've > edited it. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message