From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 10:22:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D31E37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:22:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from nasby.net (sysnasby@2.nasby.dsl.enteract.com [216.80.51.18]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA35944 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:22:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@nasby.net) Message-ID: <3A269AD1.25A31BD8@nasby.net> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:22:09 -0600 From: "Jim C. Nasby" Organization: distributed.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot messages. References: <002601c05af5$3a6ec840$e815820a@sdccd.cc.ca.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Erin wrote: > > I am looking for a way to make the boot messages (mostly kernel messages) > from appearing on the console. I would like to log all of these messages, > but I have several co-located machines and do not want prying eyes to see > what is going on. Using a splash screen should take care of this. I've never tried it, YMMV. > Also does anyone know how I can cut down the number of local (console) > terminals available? Turn some of them off in /etc/ttys. You might also want to recompile the kernel so that there's less of them allocated; take a look in LINT for the parameter. -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ jim@nasby.net /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer / | \ Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America /___|___\ Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Get paid to surf!! http://www.enteract.com/~nasby/alladvantage.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message