Subject: Re: error messages to screen under X
To: Greg Dunn <gregdunn@indy.net>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/19/1998 14:31:35
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...

Take a look at /var/log/messages to see what it is that sending stuff to
your console.  I've found that 'xterm -C' doesn't work, but using xconsole
_does_ work as of 1.3.  I'd suggest trying it.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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