+---- Steve Tremblett wrote:
| I'm guessing this is particular to the sparc port seeing as how I've
| never seen it on XFree on Intel. 
| 
| Syslog messages are printed on the console while I'm in X and it is
| like they are written directly over what's on the screen, making a mess
| of everything.  Is there any way around it?

Thanks for the tips guys.  I considered sending all syslog to a file
but figured I'd end up missing something I should have seen.  I also
thought of xconsole just after I sent the msg - haven't had a chance to
try it yet but I'm sure it will do the trick.

-- 
Steve Tremblett