From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 5 14:10:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B50437B41C; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 14:10:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from router.hackerheaven.org (ipv6.hackerheaven.org [80.126.0.97]) by smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g35MALTW033604; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 00:10:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by router.hackerheaven.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B835D1C05; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 00:09:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 00:09:32 +0200 From: Emiel Kollof To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patch: make syslog stop spamming any root it finds... Message-ID: <20020405220932.GA13171@hackerheaven.org> References: <21793.1018042030@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21793.1018042030@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Mailer: Mutt 1.3.23i (2001-10-09) X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://www.hackerheaven.org/ X-Info2: http://www.cmdline.org/ X-Info3: http://www.coolvibe.org/ X-message-flag: Out of cheese error! Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@freebsd.org) wrote: > > I have always hated the three lines in /etc/syslog.conf which spams > root with far too many and far too irrellevant syslog messages, in > some cases even with several copies of them. Amen to that. You got my vote. Usually when I set up a FreeBSD box, it's the first thing I turn off. I say commit it. (although it's not really a hard job turning it off after an install, but hey, I'm lazy :-) Cheers, Emiel -- Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message