From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 7:23:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from k0r3.reflektor.cz (k0r3.reflektor.cz [212.24.129.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37E0437B408 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:23:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cynic@mail.cz) Received: (qmail 29715 invoked by uid 202); 13 Jun 2001 14:23:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zvahlav.mail.cz) (212.24.143.100) by k0r3.reflektor.cz with SMTP; 13 Jun 2001 14:23:23 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010613162907.028e0e88@mail.cz> X-Sender: cynic@mail.cz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:31:28 +0200 To: Francisco Reyes , Lowell Gilbert From: Cynic Subject: Re: unwanted messages in console Cc: In-Reply-To: References: <441yoqln91.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> 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 yes. besides, some of the messages go to non-[rt]oo[rt] console as well... that's the /dev/console line, right? I changed syslog.conf to *.err;kern.>info;auth.>info;mail.crit /dev/console and that seems to do what I want. At 16:06 13.6. 2001, Francisco Reyes wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ------end of quote------ cynic@mail.cz ------------- And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files. - Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message