Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:09:31 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/37465: Handbook needs new section Message-ID: <20020426100931.B59183@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20020426002055.GD29309@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr on Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:20:55AM %2B0300 References: <200204252013.g3PKDUt64600@freefall.freebsd.org> <p05100333b8ee2481dfce@[192.168.254.205]> <20020426002055.GD29309@hades.hell.gr>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:20:55AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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. Or maybe not exactly this one, but the others that send the output to 'root' or '*'. Yes, I know those are gone in -stable and -current, but an older system would still have them. This is the *very* first thing I remove on a FreeBSD box, ten seconds into the first boot :) (I see how they might be useful to somebody who sees FreeBSD for the first time, though.. or rather, I see how they might have seemed useful - apparently, others, too, have considered them Not Fun(tm) enough to remove them :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 You have, of course, just begun reading the sentence that you have just finished reading. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjzI/SsACgkQ7Ri2jRYZRVPdbQCdFUtcZdFvU605qMyxOq16rkAR C6YAnjD5MhN8JGJIiBefuhe3QHe4yxfw =zkA8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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