Subject: Re: console writing on X11 desktop?
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Christoph Kaegi <kgc@zhwin.ch>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/19/2002 15:11:19
On 2002.07.19 08:19, Steve Tremblett wrote:
> 
> Syslog messages are printed on the console while I'm in X and it is             
> like they are written directly over what's on the screen, making a mess         
> of everything.  Is there any way around it?

You could stop syslog from writing its messages to the console
and redirect them to a file.

see SYSLOG.CONF(5)

Hope this helps

Chris


-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc@zhwin.ch
----------------------------------------------------------------------