From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 16:22:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkavian.org (malkavian.org [206.136.132.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBCBC37B403 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:22:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbw@myplace.org) Received: (from rbw@localhost) by malkavian.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5ENMJX68854; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:22:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rbw@myplace.org) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:22:19 -0700 From: "brian j. peterson" To: Per Hjeltman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Annoying messages Message-ID: <20010614162219.E14734@malkavian.org> Mail-Followup-To: Per Hjeltman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from per_hjeltman@hotmail.com on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:41:06AM +0200 X-URL: http://rbw.myplace.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG run 'man 5 syslog.conf' ... then edit /etc/syslog.conf to your liking ... then restart syslogd ('kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`' should do it) -brian On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:41:06AM +0200, Per Hjeltman wrote: > I am starting to become seriously annoyed by one "feature" of FreeBSD > 4.3-STABLE. Namely, 'informative' messages from the kernel are sprinkled > over every virtual terminal. So that, if I do a simple 'su' iv ttyv2, there > will be a message proclaiming this in ttyv0, ttyv1, ..., etc > > Usually such messages would only be visible on ttyv0. Why is 4.3-STABLE > spamming them all over the place? > > Thanks in advance. > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- --===-----=======-----------=============-----------------=================== | rbw aka bjp | god's final message to his creation: | | rbw@myplace.org | we apologize for the inconvenience. | ===================-----------------=============-----------=======-----===-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message