From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 15 7:27:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CB0237B401 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:27:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 17978 invoked by uid 100); 15 Jun 2001 14:27:36 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15146.7000.167603.530751@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:27:36 -0500 To: "Per Hjeltman" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Annoying messages In-Reply-To: <114336338@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Per Hjeltman types: > 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? It's not spamming them all over the place, it's printing htem on every terminal root is logged into. The best way to make this stop is to quit logging in as root, and log in as a regular user. You can remove that bit of security by changing all the "root" actions in syslog.conf to something else, or removing those lines, then HUPping syslogd. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message