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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: =?Windows-1252?Q?Ari_Sigur=F0sson?= <bsd@hrappur.solver.is>
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Subject: Re: messages on screen 
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:21:59 +0100, =?Windows-1252?Q?Ari_Sigur=F0sson?= wrote:

> is there anyone who can tell me how to prevent
> messages, like errors and warnings, to appear on
> my screen in FreeBSD 3.4. I think some of those messages should
> be only in /var/log/messages but they appear on
> my screen as well!

You can edit /etc/syslog.conf so that nothing goes to /dev/console.
This is a bad idea.  Rather use another vty.

See the syslog.conf(5) manual page for details.  Don't forget to send
syslogd a HUP signal so that it rereads /etc/syslog.conf after you've
edited it.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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