From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 03:26:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA00532 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 03:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (root@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA00460 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 03:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neuron (ppp3 [194.95.214.133]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA03221; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 11:29:08 +0100 Message-ID: <324FBA97.1834@degnet.baynet.de> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 11:20:00 +0000 From: Darius Moos Reply-To: moos@degnet.baynet.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith Leonard CC: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: messages mess up display References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Don't know how to suppress this messages but if you are using vi for editing files, simply hit CTRL-L to redisplay the current screen. Darius Moos. Keith Leonard wrote: > > Howdy, > I am probably asking a stupid question but - after a lot of work I have > 2.1.5 working on my machine (486DX4 with 32megs ram and a 824 meg HD). I > love it (once I caught on to the rationale), however no matter how I log > on (root or keithl (wheel group)) I keep getting these anoying (sp?) > messages about loggings and changes , etc. poping up on the display, which > of course messes up the file (visually) that I'm working on. I realize to > get rid of it (on the screen) I just need to cursor past the message and > back to where I was - BUT PLEEEEASE..... > > Any way to disable this message thingee? > > Any help would be appreaciated > > Keith > keithl@gil.net > > ps. I have tried compiling the kernel without the system V message option > and I get the same results. -- email: moos@degnet.baynet.de