From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 24 22:23:35 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61067B66 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:23:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E4C1127 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:23:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au (unknown [192.168.0.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 152E85C22 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:39:49 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <51785B5F.4080903@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:23:27 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130205 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stop ifconfig high intensity message from master console References: <5177FFE2.10009@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <5177FFE2.10009@a1poweruser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:23:35 -0000 On 04/25/13 01:53, Joe wrote: > When I do a ifconfig bridge create or ifconfig epair create commands I > get some high intensity messages on the hosts F1 session master console. > > I would like to suppress these messages. > > Is there any way to do that? You'd have to adjust your syslog.conf I'd imagine- look for /dev/console. Read the man page for syslog to know what to adjust on the line which tells it what to send to the console. I believe there might even be a 'not' setting. Correct me if I'm wrong guys. HTH