From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 7:48:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8204B37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:48:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id RAA20294; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:55:28 +0100 Message-ID: <3A631C12.41A7BC07@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:49:38 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stopping console messages References: <3A631999.A9EB471@mail.iowna.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran schrieb: > > Is there a way to stop the system from logging to the console? man syslog.conf man syslogd tells the whole story. To put it short: remove references to console in /etc/syslog.conf to quiet the thing, then killall -HUP syslogd to make it read the config file again. > Most of these messages are just regular notices (like upsd's regular > stat reports) or minor warnings (like problems with sendmail and the > DHCP assigned IPs) > Regardless, I'm admining this on a part-time basis, so the messages > scrolling across the console aren't much help (I'm always checking the > various log files) And they sure get in the way when they pop up while > you're trying to edit a file or something. > Is there a way to change the threshold on this so only critical messages > pop up. That way I could tell the people there that any time they see > messages popping up on the screen they should call me. Either way, it > would be nice to simply not have work around all those messages. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message