From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 5 19:26:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA18769 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:26:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA18751 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:26:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA01533; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:22:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:22:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Atipa cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog-free console/vty possible? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Atipa wrote: > > Hi, > > I was setting up a new machine, and was having cabling difficulties. I > was getting so many error messages on the console that I couldn't really > do anything without ing every other second. > > How can you make a syslog free console? Is there any way I can make > /dev/console appear only on ttyv0? > > I even changed the /dev/console line to /dev/null in /etc/syslog.conf and > HUP syslog but it still didn't work. Is there such an option in either > /etc/syslog.conf or /etc/ttys to fix this? It depends on what's generating the messages. If they're in high-intensity, they're coming from the kernel, so you'll have to shut up the kernel to quiet the messages. Kernel messages aren't reroutable using syslogd; they always go on the console. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major