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From: scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Scott Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: console messages in every xterm
Date: 02 Sep 1996 11:04:19 GMT
Organization: Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK
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In-reply-to: us@microtronic.de's message of Fri, 30 Aug 96 10:01:17 GMT
In article <506dn3$guh@news.b-1.de.contrib.net> us@microtronic.de (Ulf Schmidt) writes:
> Hi there,
>
> I installed X11 on my FreeBSD 2.1.5 system, and have launched two
> xterms to my X11 Server. No matter how many xterms I start, I get
> all the messages which are supposed to go the console and
> /var/log/messages on all my xterms.
>
> How can I prevent that?
>
> Regards, Ulf
>
Are you perchance starting your xterms with the "-C" flag? I just
tried this on my Indy and the /dev/console stuff still only went to
one xterm (as I would expect), but it's worth checking I guess.
Scott
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