From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 18:07:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA06409 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:07:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA06389 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:07:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA13961; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:06:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:06:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White 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. These are standard console messages. Either use one of your virtual terminals (hit alt-f1) or edit /etc/syslog.conf. The advantage of always using vty1 is that you can use scrollback (scroll-lock & up arrow) to see the past console messages without logging in and looking at /var/log/messages. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major