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Subject: how do I suppress system messages?
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This is something that drives me crazy but I've not been able to find a =
way to stop it.=20

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.=20

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