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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:09:16 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu>
To:        Andy Pendry <andy.pendry@trinity.edin.sch.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Stop freeBSD verbosity
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.96.980210110740.10412G-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <34E06F80.1CB7@trinity.edin.sch.uk>

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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Andy Pendry wrote:

> I have a free BSD server running sendmail etc...
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to stop sendmail and popper and other daemons
> reporting to the screen whenever someone sends mail.
> 
> I have been trying to solve this problem for ages, and I can't locate
> the correct config file to change.

	Take alook at /etc/syslog.conf.  This file tells the system what
to do with various messages.  In the case of important ones, they are not
only logged but written to the console.  It should be fairly obvious what
to change.  

cheers,

	Adrian
--
adrian@virginia.edu        ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and
System Administrator         --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer,
Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD.  Think about it.....
http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/     ->|      http://www.freebsd.org/


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