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To: Brett Glass <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Console messages 
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Brett Glass wrote in message ID
<9603158295.AA829596515@ccgate.infoworld.com>:
> When I'm working at the system console under FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE, kernel
> messages pop up on the screen and interrupt my work. Is there a way to
> direct these messages to a single virtual console (The kernel is built for
> four right now) rather than to whichever virtual console I'm working on?
> This way, I could switch to one of the virtual consoles (say, ttyv0) to see
> the messages, but would not be interrupted when I was working in
> another....

You must be logged on as root ... syslogd sends the messages to all
root logins... You can alter /etc/syslogd.conf to stop that, or use su
instead :-)

Gary