From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 6 7:38:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megared.net.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3030915591 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 07:38:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (ales.megared.net.mx [207.249.163.252]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA53135; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:38:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <00e901bee019$5b5edb60$fca3f9cf@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Costa, David" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" References: <22BE750538F8D211BC3E0090273FC2010106E9@mars.netcoresys.com> Subject: RE: arpwatch is flooding the console with messages Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 09:38:32 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: '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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message