Does your kernel config have

	options         UCONSOLE

	enabled?


		David/absolute

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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Maurice Hason wrote:

> I had the same problem and tryed to solve it buy redirecting them to
> /dev/console but unfortunatelly I still cant get it to work. I get the
> messages both on the xconsole and on the bottom of the screen, messing up
> the other windows. Are there any other solutions?
> 
> Maurice
> 
> >You're probably getting messages sent to /dev/console.  Try running
> >xconsole to redirect those messages.  And Yes, I think this is in a FAQ
> >somewhere, but I can for the life of me remember just where  :)
> >
> >On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Greg Dunn wrote:
> >
> >> Still plugging away with the network setup stuff...   I was connecting via
> >> telnet to the NetBSD machine (so I didn't have to keep running across the
> >> room :)  and on the occasions where I get a login failure the error
> >> messages are clobbering the screen on my X display at the NetBSD machine.
> >>
> >> I routinely start X with "startx &>/dev/null" which gets rid of most of the
> >> glitches, but apparently somebody isn't playing fair with their diagnostic
> >> output...  inetd perhaps?  Changing /etc/syslog.conf to redirect output and
> >> trying the "-C" option on my xterm also failed to stem the flow.  Anyway, I
> >> thought this had already been addressed in the 1.3 distribution, but maybe
> >> not...
> >>
> 
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