Quoting Ignatios Souvatzis (20-Aug-98 10:28:28):

>> I looked also at syslog.conf(5). However, I had trouble to identify
>> whether the reason for the prinint to all xterm windows is
>> syslog.conf.
>> 
>> ----- cut here -----

> this line:

>> *.notice;auth.debug                              root

> will forward every class notice and more urgent message, and every
> authentication message, to every tty line were root is logged in.

> If you start X as root, this is every single xterm.

If you start X as root, let's say with 3 xterm windows, and then you
change user in one xterm window ('su -l iuser'), is this xterm window
then consinderd to belong to root or to user?

When I do this, I continue to get system messages to the xterm window
I changed user.

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