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 -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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