Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:38:32 -0500 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "Costa, David" <dcosta@netcoresys.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: arpwatch is flooding the console with messages Message-ID: <00e901bee019$5b5edb60$fca3f9cf@megared.net.mx> References: <22BE750538F8D211BC3E0090273FC2010106E9@mars.netcoresys.com>
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Hi,
I think thats because you are logged in as root, when you are logged as
root, you will see all the console messages, try logging in as a normal user
and "su -" when you need it.
Ales
----- Original Message -----
From: Costa, David <dcosta@netcoresys.com>
To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 3:52 PM
Subject: arpwatch is flooding the console with messages
> I am a relatively new user of FreeBSD, and UNIX in general. I compiled the
> kernel for bpf support, and created the /dev/bpf0.
>
> Arpwatch is working, I am getting mail messages and seeing messages logged
> to /var/log/messages.
>
> My problem is that the messages appearing in /var/log/messages are also
> appearing on the console.
>
> Is there any way to prevent arpwatch from writing its messages to the
> console?
>
> Thank you for helping a FreeBSD newbie.
>
> Dave Costa
>
>
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