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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:26:38 +0300
From: Simas Cepaitis <snc@post.5ci.lt>
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Subject: Re: Stop syslog from writing certain facilities to console?
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Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I'm running Leafnode in a FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE jail environment.  `fetchnews'
> reports a lot of minor errors to news.err, and these get written to console
> (which annoys me to no end).
> 
> /etc/syslog.conf looks like:
> 
>     *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit          /dev/console


*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit;news.none    /dev/console

You should really read syslog.conf(5)


Simas Cepaitis
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