I had the same problem and tryed to solve it buy redirecting them to
/dev/console but unfortunatelly I still cant get it to work. I get the
messages both on the xconsole and on the bottom of the screen, messing up
the other windows. Are there any other solutions?

Maurice

>You're probably getting messages sent to /dev/console.  Try running
>xconsole to redirect those messages.  And Yes, I think this is in a FAQ
>somewhere, but I can for the life of me remember just where  :)
>
>On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Greg Dunn wrote:
>
>> Still plugging away with the network setup stuff...   I was connecting via
>> telnet to the NetBSD machine (so I didn't have to keep running across the
>> room :)  and on the occasions where I get a login failure the error
>> messages are clobbering the screen on my X display at the NetBSD machine.
>>
>> I routinely start X with "startx &>/dev/null" which gets rid of most of the
>> glitches, but apparently somebody isn't playing fair with their diagnostic
>> output...  inetd perhaps?  Changing /etc/syslog.conf to redirect output and
>> trying the "-C" option on my xterm also failed to stem the flow.  Anyway, I
>> thought this had already been addressed in the 1.3 distribution, but maybe
>> not...
>>