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)

Hope this helps

Chris


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Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc@zhwin.ch
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