From owner-freebsd-security Sat Feb 1 15:41: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2590037B401 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 15:41:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from horkos.telenet-ops.be (horkos.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 386DE43F75 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 15:41:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philip@paeps.cx) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by horkos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id DE251846C6; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 00:40:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from fortuna.home.paeps.cx (D5768746.kabel.telenet.be [213.118.135.70]) by horkos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5AAF84356; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 00:40:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from juno.home.paeps.cx (juno.home.paeps.cx [10.0.0.2]) by fortuna.home.paeps.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8978A5; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 00:40:58 +0100 (CET) Received: by juno.home.paeps.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E9EA210E3; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 00:40:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 00:40:55 +0100 From: Philip Paeps To: port001 Cc: FreeBSD-Security Subject: Re: Messages to ttyv0 Message-ID: <20030201234055.GJ637@juno.home.paeps.cx> Mail-Followup-To: port001 , FreeBSD-Security References: <000701c2ca4a$74d0b220$0200a8c0@w0r> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000701c2ca4a$74d0b220$0200a8c0@w0r> X-Date-in-Rome: ante diem IV Nonas Februarias MMDCCLVI ab Urbe Condida X-PGP-Fingerprint: FA74 3C27 91A6 79D5 F6D3 FC53 BF4B D0E6 049D B879 X-Message-Flag: Get a proper mailclient! Mutt: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2003-02-01 23:34:25 (-0000), port001 wrote: > even when logged out on ttyv0 messages show up, is this a feature or an > oversight? It's a feature. > I personaly see it as an oversight. Nope. By default (ie: unless you put it elsewhere) ttyv0 is your console, where important things go. You can change where things go in syslog.conf. You could also grab the console with X11, or throw it out of your serial port, depending on what you need or what you want. - Philip -- Philip Paeps Please don't CC me, I am philip@paeps.cx subscribed to the list. No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message