turn off lp errors displaying when logged in as root

[rcbatlinux]

Anyone know of how to turn off lp errors from popping up into my telnet session when logged in as root? Obviously fixing the lp error is a good step but trying to fix it while it keeps displaying a message when logged in as root is driving me nuts!

thanks

rcbatlinux

 

[Annihilannic]

What kind of messages are they? It's strange that they're coming up in your telnet session; if you open a second one do they come up there as well?

Check /etc/syslog.conf for any lpr.* references and comment them out perhaps.

Annihilannic.

 

[rcbatlinux]

They are messages that the system cannot communicate with the printer. I had gone in and #ed out most everything in the /etc/syslog.conf and even restarted the syslog daemon and yet it still would display on my screen the error message.

rcbatlinux

 

[Annihilannic]

When you say "screen"... are you connected remotely through telnet? Or are you using CDE with a console window?

Try typing ps -ft pts/N and see if you have any processes running against your terminal that shouldn't be. You can find out what pseudo tty number you are on using tty.

Annihilannic.