Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:10:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Andrew_Werner/SSW/Lotus@lotus.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: messages on the console Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980724140812.26800C-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <8525664B.006AD331.00@mta2.lotus.com>
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This is coming from syslog daemon. $ man syslogd $ man 5 syslog.conf If reading man pages is not your style, edit out lines which have root in /etc/syslog.conf and kill -HUP <syslog_pid>: This: *.err root *.notice;news.err root *.alert root Becomes this: #*.err root #*.notice;news.err root #*.alert root -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 Andrew_Werner/SSW/Lotus@lotus.com wrote: >Its very annoying to see messages go by on the console as you're logging in >as root or if someone else is su - to it or if there is improper media in >the CD-ROM for some reason. Is there a way to supress the messages on the >console? Better yet, is this somewhere in the FAQ that I may have missed? > > -A.J. Werner > > > >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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