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)


this helps syslog messages but does not stop kernel messages.
for that one needs to use TIOCCONS, which is what xconsole
and xterm -C do.