From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 7: 4:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0147E37B401 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from zoraida.reyes.somos.net (zoraida.reyes.somos.net [192.168.10.6]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA56134; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:05:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:06:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: Subject: Re: unwanted messages in console In-Reply-To: <441yoqln91.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11 Jun 2001, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > #*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console > > #*.err root > > #*.notice;news.err root > > #*.alert root > > #*.emerg * > > > > save then send a -HUP to syslogd > > The usual advice, actually, is to not log in as root instead of > getting rid of the notifications being sent to root... I think that message is most appropriate to people who use FreeBSD as servers on a production environment. There are so many things which require root which are fairly routine for a home desktop: updating ports, mounting devices such as CD or floppies, backups. I am aware there are ways to change some of those things so they can be done as a regular user, but most are not obvious for new users, or even for those who have never tried to do them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message