From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 15 8:46:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA0F5150DA for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 08:46:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from up@pil.net) Received: (qmail 25492 invoked by uid 1825); 15 Oct 1999 15:40:04 -0000 Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:40:04 -0400 (EDT) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: serial console login failures Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a serial console cable plugged in to the ttyd0 port of my fbsd box, with the other end plugged into a Lucendington PM2e, so I can get to the console in the event that the OS goes down. It all works ok (it's one of those Intel motherboards with a bios-accessible serial console that isn't everything it's cracked up to be, but that's another story), but my /var/log/messages file fills up with a bunch of these: Oct 12 11:50:17 edward login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyd0, login: Oct 12 11:55:57 edward login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyd0 Oct 12 11:55:57 edward login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyd0, login: Oct 12 12:51:23 edward login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyd0 Oct 12 12:51:23 edward login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyd0, login: Oct 12 12:57:53 edward login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyd0 Oct 12 12:57:53 edward login: 1 LOGIN FAILURE ON ttyd0, login: is there a way to suppress this, either from the fbsd end, or the ComOS end? TIA, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= ISPF 3 - The Forum for ISPs by ISPs(tm) || Nov 15-17, 1999, New Orleans 3 days of clues, news, and views from the industry's best and brightest. Visit for information and registration. ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message