Hi there,

>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?
as far as I remember running xconsole cures this. There is some other way around this but I can't remember right now, my last NetBSD SPARC died around 1998 :-(

have fun
Michael