From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 13:58:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA21840 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 13:58:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sand.sentex.ca (sand.sentex.ca [206.222.77.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA21834 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 13:58:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from gravel (gravel.sentex.ca [205.211.165.210]) by sand.sentex.ca (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id RAA29823; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 17:07:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970219164710.00a52330@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:47:10 -0500 To: RPD , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970219205250.0067e810@mail.webbernet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 03:52 PM 2/19/97 -0500, RPD wrote: >I am having trouble figuring out this.. Every time someone logs on to my >system I get it accross my screen.. Lets say I am working in bash.. just >making dir's and someone logs on to my system.. well when they log on.. it >posts a mesg on my terminal that they logged in. It does the same thing >with popper when users access there mail.. I am tring to turn it off so it >does not post the mesg. Have a look at your syslog configuration... /etc/syslog.conf e.g. *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console Dont forget that if you make changes to this file to do a kill -1 to the syslog.pid (contained in /var/run/syslog.pid) ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatre (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) *