From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 17:52:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA21608 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:52:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panix.com (panix.com [198.7.0.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA21601 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:52:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbarrm@localhost) by panix.com (8.7.5/8.7/PanixU1.3) id UAA27698; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 20:49:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 20:49:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Barry Masterson To: Brett Glass cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Console messages In-Reply-To: <9603158295.AA829596515@ccgate.infoworld.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 14 Apr 1996, Brett Glass wrote: > When I'm working at the system console under FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE, kernel > messages pop up on the screen and interrupt my work. Is there a way to > direct these messages to a single virtual console (The kernel is built for > four right now) rather than to whichever virtual console I'm working on? > This way, I could switch to one of the virtual consoles (say, ttyv0) to see > the messages, but would not be interrupted when I was working in > another.... > > --Brett Glass > The file you need to work on is /etc/syslog.conf *.err;kern.debug;mail.crit;*.crit /dev/console *.notice;kern.debug;lpr,auth.info;mail.crit /var/log/messages mail.info /var/log/maillog lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs cron.* /var/cron/log *.err /dev/ttyv6 *.notice;auth.debug /dev/ttyv6 *.alert /dev/ttyv6 *.emerg * ftp.info /var/log/ftpd Choose your tty, and place it in the syslog.conf file. I think thats all there is to it. Some of those kernel messages may be helpful though. Barry Masterson jbarrm@panix.com >--->--->--->--->---> FreeBSD 2.1.0 <---<---<---<---<---<