Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:31:28 +0200 From: Cynic <cynic@mail.cz> To: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>, Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: unwanted messages in console Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010613162907.028e0e88@mail.cz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0106131003580.1275-100000@zoraida.reyes.somo s.net> References: <441yoqln91.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>
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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:
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>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.
>
>
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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.
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