RE: pop up message

2007-04-30 Thread Bob
Using a different virtual root terminal is side stepping the question. The
correct answer is to edit /etc/syslog.conf and
change the error messages from going to /dev/console to go to
/var/log/messages instead.

Or in some circles the Unix purists would say you should not be using the
root user id as your normal id.
Root should be reserved for doing system install tasks and system
administration tasks only.
Create your self a user id to use as your normal id doing all your
non-system tasks under. Then when you logon to root you will see only the
pop up messages as a summary of things you as system admin needs to be
alerted to.  That's how root id its intended to be used. But by changing
syslog.conf you can change this default behavior of the alerting messages
being sent to root user id.

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Subject: Re: pop up message

These messages are normal and are only visible on the first virtual
terminal (alt+f1).  Switch to another terminal using alt+f2 or alt+f3...
and you won't see the messages.

ChueKeung Mock wrote:
 Hi, I had problem of pop up message during using the
 terminal of freebsd.  I installed Freebsd 6.1 on AMD
 cup computer.  there is pop up message during using
 the terminal.  the messages like

 Apr 28 20:05:01 dhcppc1 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON
 ttyv0

 Apr 28 21:52:53 dhcppc1 last message repeated 5
 times

 I feel these message annoying because it disturbs me
 when I edit a doc using editor.  please let me know
 how to turn these message off.  thank you

 tony

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Re: pop up message

2007-04-29 Thread Bill Moran
ChueKeung Mock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi, I had problem of pop up message during using the
 terminal of freebsd.  I installed Freebsd 6.1 on AMD
 cup computer.  there is pop up message during using
 the terminal.  the messages like
 
 Apr 28 20:05:01 dhcppc1 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON
 ttyv0
 
 Apr 28 21:52:53 dhcppc1 last message repeated 5
 times
 
 I feel these message annoying because it disturbs me
 when I edit a doc using editor.  please let me know
 how to turn these message off.  thank you

I believe those are controlled by syslog.  Look in /etc/syslog.conf
and notice the line:
*.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit/dev/console
Changing that will control what gets logged to the console.  See
the syslog.conf man page for more information.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com
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Re: pop up message

2007-04-29 Thread Joe Ryan
These messages are normal and are only visible on the first virtual 
terminal (alt+f1).  Switch to another terminal using alt+f2 or alt+f3... 
and you won't see the messages.


ChueKeung Mock wrote:

Hi, I had problem of pop up message during using the
terminal of freebsd.  I installed Freebsd 6.1 on AMD
cup computer.  there is pop up message during using
the terminal.  the messages like

Apr 28 20:05:01 dhcppc1 login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON
ttyv0

Apr 28 21:52:53 dhcppc1 last message repeated 5
times

I feel these message annoying because it disturbs me
when I edit a doc using editor.  please let me know
how to turn these message off.  thank you

tony

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