Lynette, System messages print out to the console on tty0 only, by default. If you want to use the console, switch to tty1 or above. Do this by ALT+2(tty1), ALT+3(tty2), etc. When you're in Vi, and syslog prints across the screen, using CTRL+L will re-draw the screen, and remove the syslog messages. If you want to get rid of the messages altogether, look into disabling syslogd, via /etc/rc.conf. (Man syslogd, or check /etc/defaults/rc.conf for syslogd.
Kevin Glick ITS Manager Sterling Business Forms [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynette Tillner Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how do I suppress system messages? This is something that drives me crazy but I've not been able to find a way to stop it. When I log into my FreeBSD 4.6 Web Server as root, I get messages from sendmail that I can't suppress with dmesg. They are a real pain because they even come across the screen when I'm using VI to edit files and then I can't figure out the line I was in the middle of editing, and end up doing a :q! and starting over, very frustrating because we get tons of mail and it seems like I can't do anything as root because of these messages. Is there a command that will suppress the messages? I remember being able to do that when I was working on an HP-UX system but haven't figured it out under FreeBSD. Thanks for any help! Lynette _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
