From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 8 15:55:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA20297 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 15:55:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA20271 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 15:55:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberte@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.5/8.8.4) id AAA02717; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 00:55:15 +0100 (MEZ) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199801082355.AAA02717@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: STOP LOGGIN ON THE CONSOLE!! In-Reply-To: <34B545E1.66BD@internetmci.com> from Robert at "Jan 8, 98 03:32:17 pm" To: mhi@internetmci.com (Robert) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 00:55:15 +0100 (MEZ) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Robert, It was Robert who wrote: > help > how do I get logging to stop on the console. > sendmail and fwtk keeps loggin and disturbing me... :) > is there any way to get it to JUST go in a log file?? You want to read `man syslogd' and edit /etc/syslog.conf. There you define, which information gets logged to /dev/console, root or all users (*). You should find the information, which program logs at which severity, in the respective man-page. Robert > > thanks in advance > Robert > -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de