From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 27 18:17:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA24387 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 18:17:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x173-171.reshalls.umn.edu (x173-171.reshalls.umn.edu [160.94.173.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA24373 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 18:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by x173-171.reshalls.umn.edu (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA02374; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 20:17:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199708280117.UAA02374@x173-171.reshalls.umn.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: x173-171.reshalls.umn.edu: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol From: mikk0022@maroon.tc.umn.edu To: Sheikh Ahmed cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen displays In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Aug 1997 11:20:06 -0000." <34040D5A.75A2@yoyo.org> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 20:17:29 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Try 'man syslog.conf' This file lets you send that logging information anywhere. I personally use it to send info to a central 'log host' That way, I can read log messages from any machine by loggin into the central host and tail-ling the file. -Chris On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 11:20:06 +0000 Sheikh Ahmed wrote >Hi there. >Err, we are running FreeBSD 2.2.2 and Sendmail. >How do you stop any messages appearing on the screen informing you of >users who are logging on...... > >Or is this not possible? > >Thanks >Sheikh :) >