From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 15 14:56:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gscamnlm03.wr.usgs.gov (gscamnlm03.wr.usgs.gov [130.118.4.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408AE37B401; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:56:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsowders@usgs.gov) To: Mike Meyer Cc: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Per Hjeltman" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Annoying messages MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.7 March 21, 2001 Message-ID: From: "Robert L Sowders" Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:56:23 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on gscamnlm03/SERVER/USGS/DOI(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 06/15/2001 02:56:48 PM, Serialize complete at 06/15/2001 02:56:48 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 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 Sent by: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 06/15/2001 07:27 AM To: "Per Hjeltman" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Annoying messages 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message