From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 5 18: 9:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wemm.org (12-232-135-171.client.attbi.com [12.232.135.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D633037B41A; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 18:09:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g362A0Q03698; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 18:10:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E197390B; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 18:12:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Emiel Kollof Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patch: make syslog stop spamming any root it finds... In-Reply-To: <20020405220932.GA13171@hackerheaven.org> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 18:12:40 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020406021240.5E197390B@overcee.wemm.org> 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 Emiel Kollof wrote: > * 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. Likewise, it's the first thing I turn off, as well as the *.emerg line that broadcasts to all users. Note however that having syslogd whine to root logins is kind of a discouragement to actually log in as root, and rather have people log in and 'su' instead. But even then, it's I would rather see it dead. :-) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message