Stop messages to console?

[Nick Phillips]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 03:27:46PM +0100, Tom Combs wrote:

>  I just started using mailscanner and I'm very please with the system.
>  Thanks for all the hard work, it should make our lives a lot easier!
>
>  However, whenever I pop up a root window on our mailserver, it will
>  receive messages about detected viruses.  I haven't tested to see
>  if these go to every root window or just to the first one since I'm
>  not actually logged in at the console.  How can I change this behavior?
>  I like messages going to the logs but not to my root window.  Should
>  I just redirect stdout and/or stderr to /dev/null when I start mailscanner?

Sounds like your syslog is sticking messages of facility/severity mail.info
onto root's ttys. See the syslog.conf manpage for more information.


Cheers,


Nick

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