From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 20 12:54:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5C116A41F for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:54:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kilim@phenix.rootshell.be) Received: from phenix.rootshell.be (phenix.rootshell.be [217.22.55.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C7543D5A for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:54:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kilim@phenix.rootshell.be) Received: by phenix.rootshell.be (Postfix, from userid 58045) id 333C317974; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:54:54 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:54:54 +0200 From: kilim To: "Andrew P." Message-ID: <20051020125453.GA28186@phenix.rootshell.be> References: <20051020104733.GA14688@phenix.rootshell.be> <20051020111831.GB14688@phenix.rootshell.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stopping the logging to console from pf ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:54:58 -0000 On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:57:14PM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: > Could you try stopping syslogd for a while - just to see if the > messages are coming through it. "/etc/rc.d/syslogd stop" Thank you very much Andrew P. ! Once I stopped it, the messages kept on pouring to the console. So I had a look in the pf.conf and sure enought the problem was there: set debug loud once I changed it to: set debug urgent the noise went away. Your suggestion helped me find it. Thanks again.