[NBLUG/talk] Info to Monitor

[Scott Doty]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:42:59PM -0700, Walter Hansen wrote:
> For some reason varrious messages are put up on the physical screen
> (tty1?). These usually have something to do with mouting drives or other
> large changes. So when I go to log into a server from the console there's
> a bunch of old messages with a login prompt below.
> 
> Myself I'd rather the messages not be there. I guess someone with console
> access could hack in anyway so it's not really a security issue, but I
> just think they look messy.
> 
> This is by no means a issue. I just wondered about what you guys thought
> of it.

man dmesg :)

("dmesg -n 1" is probably close to what you are looking for.)

 -Scott