From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 02:54:29 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 C1D8816A4CE for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 02:54:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from grog.secure-computing.net (grog.secure-computing.net [63.228.14.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C2643D58 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 02:54:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ecrist@secure-computing.net) Received: from [172.30.100.1] ([12.106.19.228]) (authenticated bits=0)i9F2sJbG013748; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:54:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ecrist@secure-computing.net) In-Reply-To: <00ae01c4b21d$80139820$0601a8c0@M2> References: <20041013190901.1959D43D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <00ae01c4b21d$80139820$0601a8c0@M2> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-2--757492063" Message-Id: <5A62372C-1E55-11D9-94C4-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric Crist Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:53:12 -0500 To: "Lynette Tillner" X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.0.2 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.75.1, clamav-milter version 0.75c on grog.secure-computing.net X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Kevin Glick 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: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 02:54:29 -0000 --Apple-Mail-2--757492063 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Oct 14, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Lynette Tillner wrote: > 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 >> I'm sure this is something that is being overridden by your ISP and the jail system they have set up. I would suggest you talk to them and see if they have something they can do to disable it. HTH ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks --Apple-Mail-2--757492063 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkFvO5gACgkQRAAY9knOW+rmawCfQlE0/aJtOR0UnHFiYHSwc0mo pnEAn30Kbdv+UOPGFK+C7qPc4joJJttW =21VG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-2--757492063--