Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:48:51 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: /dev/ttyv0 logging Message-ID: <XFMail.001218104851.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012190027560.1575-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
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On 18-Dec-00 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
>
>>
>> On 18-Dec-00 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > Inspired by recent ${SUBJ} related (not too close though) discussion on
>> > -current, I'm willing to ask you guys the following question: why do I
>> > always get whatever is logged by syslog (or even bypassing it) on my
>> > /dev/ttyv0? Doesn't it make more sense to write logs to /dev/console, or
>> > even not writing them at all? I mean, should not I be allowed to take
>> > complete control of whatever is going to be logged anywhere in my box? It
>> > seems that it doesn't really matter what I write in /etc/syslog.conf,
>> > regardless to any contents of it, I will get messages on /dev/ttyv0 no
>> > matter what.
>>
>> /dev/ttyv0 is /dev/console by default. If you boot over a serial console,
>> then
>> the messages will be logged over /dev/ttyd0 instead of /dev/ttyv0. To
>> disable
>> syslog messages then, remove /dev/console from /etc/syslogd.conf if that is
>> really what you want.
>
> You see, the problem is that I do NOT have any entries dealing with
> /dev/console or /dev/ttyv0 in my /etc/syslog.conf, and they still drop to
> /dev/ttyv0...
So you've commented out this line:
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console
(Just making sure.)
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