Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:11:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Hansen <stephen@cerebralmaelstrom.com> To: rshea@opendoor.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suppressing SENDMAIL messages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008172309390.1169-100000@Jeremy.cerebralmaelstrom.com> In-Reply-To: <200008180547.e7I5lqK11208@deborah.paradise.net.nz>
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I was always irritated by the messages popping up everywhere, and always disturbing just about everything I was doing, so peeked around.. If you go into /etc/syslog.conf and change each occurance of 'root' to /dev/ttyv0, all the messages will only be displayed on the first virtual terminal. i'm not sure if there's a difference between /dev/ttv0 or /dev/console, which the first line sends stuff to, so left it alone. --Stephen On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 rshea@opendoor.co.nz wrote: > > > > > Hi - I'm getting a lot of error messages from SENDMAIL appearing > > > on my screen whilst I'm, for instance, in a text editor. > > > > Don't login as root, or, switch to another virtual-console (ALT-F2). > > > Thanks for the suggestion. I should have said the error messages > are appearing from two sources SENDMAIL and NATD. > > The error messages appear simultaneously on all virtual-consoles > which are logged on and that's when I'm logged on as root or as > myself. > > Any hope of persuading SENDMAIL and NATD to not put the > messages up at all ? > > regards > > richard shea. > > > ***************************************************** > Open Door Ltd > PO Box 119-46 > Wellington > > PH 04 384 7639 > FX 04 384 7672 > ***************************************************** > > > 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
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