Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:56:23 -0700 From: "Robert L Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Per Hjeltman" <per_hjeltman@hotmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Annoying messages Message-ID: <OFE485485F.FCCFCE95-ON88256A6C.00758A84@wr.usgs.gov>
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Be warned that by doing this you will, at some time, miss some important
information.
That being said, to stop the "annoying" sprinkles of information to the
root logins.
In /etc/syslog.conf comment out the lines below.
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console
*.err root
*.notice;news.err root
*.alert root
By all means check out the man page. (man 5 syslog.conf)
Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Sent by: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
06/15/2001 07:27 AM
To: "Per Hjeltman" <per_hjeltman@hotmail.com>
cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Annoying messages
Per Hjeltman <per_hjeltman@hotmail.com> 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.
<mike
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