From owner-freebsd-security Sat Feb 1 16: 5:56 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 1AA8B37B401 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 16:05:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.neotext.ca (h24-70-64-200.ed.shawcable.net [24.70.64.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE9043F85 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 16:05:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from campbell@localhost.neotext.ca) Received: from localhost.neotext.ca (localhost.neotext.ca [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.neotext.ca (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h12081xg011378; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:08:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from campbell@localhost.neotext.ca) Received: (from campbell@localhost) by localhost.neotext.ca (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id h12081WR011377; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:08:01 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:08:01 -0700 From: Duncan Patton a Campbell To: "port001" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Messages to ttyv0 Message-Id: <20030201170801.72ae0336.campbell@neotext.ca> In-Reply-To: <000701c2ca4a$74d0b220$0200a8c0@w0r> References: <000701c2ca4a$74d0b220$0200a8c0@w0r> Organization: Index Express Ltd. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.BswevA/HpMMNGM" 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 --=.BswevA/HpMMNGM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Actually, it is a feature of the unix operating system in keeping with some of the more basic philosophic tennants that have guided its composition over the years, e.g. errors and system notice/warnings are not to be hidden, and that it should instruct the user as to its innner workings. It annoys the shit out of me sometimes, but its usefull to know whats going down. This is off-topic, I spose, but in some sense salient to system security. Dhu On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 23:34:25 -0000 "port001" wrote: > even when logged out on ttyv0 messages show up, is this a feature or an > oversight? > > I personaly see it as an oversight. > > Using fbsd 4.7-release-p1. > > Cheers List > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message --=.BswevA/HpMMNGM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+PGFhXgQtJ7uBra8RAk4YAJ916cSJBjAfuThGtF/H/1aYDfoujACgtca7 OMmezHSK0uYfFq0w/zisi7U= =RpB6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.BswevA/HpMMNGM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message