On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Greg Dunn wrote:

> >On Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:33:35 -0400,
> >Maurice Hason <macpro@shani.com> wrote:
> >I think you're probably logged in as root.  Don't do that, and you
> >won't get the syslog message directed to root's tty.
> 
> That's the case here too; of course, I'm in as root so I can install all
> the software I'm ftp'ing over from the other machine... ;-)  For now, I'll
> just live with the cosmetic problems, because it looks like I'll have to
> build a new kernel and re-install in the near future anyway for other
> reasons.  Maybe I can set the options flag then and see what happens.

I bet your problem is the last line in /etc/syslog.conf:

*.notice;auth.debug                                     root

Kill it, and you should be set.

Take care,

Bill