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Preventing annoying console message 1

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billbose

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Jan 15, 2001
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icebox console login: Mar 10 11:28:16 icebox su: 'su root' succeeded for iceman"

Can somebody show me how to prevent the annoying console message above which appears whenever I su to root in my Sun workstation thruough ssh.
 
Bill,
I think you can shut this down... Sounds like to me that you are using your Console Window for work... The console window's purpose is to capture error messages so they don't appear on your monitor or another terminal... I have my users run the iconified console on their desktops and (depending on what OS you are using) use a terminal (xterm, dtterm) for work. The error messages should not appear on this type of terminal unless there is no console running.
 
Go to the directory [tt]/etc/default[/tt]. Edit the file [tt]su[/tt]. Comment out the line that reads [tt]SYSLOG=YES[/tt].

But bfitzmai is right, you shouldn't use the console for normal work. Console messages are important. Open up a command window for normal work.

That should do it.
 
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