From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Apr 25 17:21:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6F037B400 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:21:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a137.otenet.gr [212.205.215.137]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3Q0Kv6b000877; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 03:20:58 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3Q0KuGl029683; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 03:20:56 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.2/Submit) id g3Q0KtLu029682; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 03:20:56 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 03:20:55 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Rich Morin Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/37465: Handbook needs new section Message-ID: <20020426002055.GD29309@hades.hell.gr> References: <200204252013.g3PKDUt64600@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-04-25 14:35, Rich Morin wrote: > On the sparse occasions when I use the server's own keyboard and monitor, > I am continuously annoyed by system error messages. Hitting ALT-F[1-6] > does nothing to eliminate these, so I generally remove myself to my > own desktop machine and do my administration from there. Is there a way > to tell the system error messages to go only to the ALT-F1 screen? Edit your syslog.conf :-P If it's the default syslog.conf of FreeBSD, it will include this: $ grep dev/console /usr/src/etc/syslog.conf *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console You want to remove (or comment) that line. Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message