From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 18:41:38 2004 Return-Path: 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 9EAD616A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:41:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from avs-1.com (ns1.avs-1.com [216.55.187.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F9443D31 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:41:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ltillner@avs-1.com) Received: from M2 (adsl-66-124-41-122.dsl.sktn01.pacbell.net [66.124.41.122]) by avs-1.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id i9EIfa4w025769; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:41:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ltillner@avs-1.com) Message-ID: <00ae01c4b21d$80139820$0601a8c0@M2> From: "Lynette Tillner" To: "Eric Crist" , "Kevin Glick" References: <20041013190901.1959D43D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:41:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do I suppress system messages? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:41:38 -0000 I did this, and even did a reboot of the server but the messages haven't stopped. Since this is a machine managed by my ISP (I don't have a full dedicated server, just a Virtual Private Server with 2 gig of disk space) could something be overriding my syslog.conf file? I looked at rc.conf but didn't see anything that I thought was appropriate to comment out. Also, I can't switch to another tty because my only access is remote --- I don't have console access. Thanks! Lynette ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Crist" To: "Kevin Glick" Cc: "'Lynette Tillner'" ; Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:12 PM Subject: Re: how do I suppress system messages? On Oct 13, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Kevin Glick wrote: > Lynette, > > System messages print out to the console on tty0 only, by default. If > you > want to use the console, switch to tty1 or above. Do this by > ALT+2(tty1), > ALT+3(tty2), etc. > When you're in Vi, and syslog prints across the screen, using CTRL+L > will > re-draw the screen, and remove the syslog messages. > If you want to get rid of the messages altogether, look into disabling > syslogd, via /etc/rc.conf. (Man syslogd, or check > /etc/defaults/rc.conf for > syslogd. > > Kevin Glick > ITS Manager > Sterling Business Forms > keving@sbfnet.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Lynette Tillner > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:21 AM > To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > Subject: how do I suppress system messages? > > This is something that drives me crazy but I've not been able to find > a way > to stop it. > > When I log into my FreeBSD 4.6 Web Server as root, I get messages from > sendmail that I can't suppress with dmesg. They are a real pain > because > they even come across the screen when I'm using VI to edit files and > then I > can't figure out the line I was in the middle of editing, and end up > doing a > :q! and starting over, very frustrating because we get tons of mail > and it > seems like I can't do anything as root because of these messages. > > Is there a command that will suppress the messages? I remember being > able > to do that when I was working on an HP-UX system but haven't figured > it out > under FreeBSD. > > Thanks for any help! > > Lynette You can also disable this by editing the file /etc/syslog.conf and commenting out the following line: *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console Simply put a # in front, save the file, and restart syslogd by doing the following as root: # killall -1 syslogd HTH ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks