From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 29 4: 6:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F0ED37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 04:06:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 10597 invoked by uid 100); 29 Jul 2001 11:06:19 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15203.60971.583044.421176@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 06:06:19 -0500 To: john chan Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error displaying on console In-Reply-To: <82076391@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG john chan types: > is there a way to sop error displaying on console, ie. maillog error, > sendmail error > when you log in as a regular user, the error won't display, when you log > in as root/su, > error keeps spitting on the screen, this symptoms also appear when you > log out! The best way to stop these messages is to not log in as root, log in as a regular user and su. If you really want to log in as root, check out the syslogd and syslog.conf man pages. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message