From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 15:28:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA25781 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:28:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA25758 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:27:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA02055; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:27:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:27:48 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: RPD cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970219205250.0067e810@mail.webbernet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, 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. That's actually a very useful feature, not a bug. Don't log in as root. Create a user account for yourself and su to root when you need to do root stuff. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."