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Subject: Re: unwanted messages in console
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From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
Date: 11 Jun 2001 17:28:42 -0400
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mail@max-info.net (Ryan Masse) writes:

> You need to comment out the following in the /etc/syslog.conf
> 
> #*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit         /dev/console
> #*.err                                          root
> #*.notice;news.err                              root
> #*.alert                                        root
> #*.emerg                                        *
> 
> save then send a -HUP to syslogd

The usual advice, actually, is to not log in as root instead of
getting rid of the notifications being sent to root...  


> > Hi there,
> >
> > stuff like [1)] appears in my consoles, and, being really
> > uninterested in 99% of it, I'd like to get rid of them. What
> > should I do? (BTW, it did it with the GENERIC kernel as well.)
> >
> > What happens is this: I'm logged on one console, doing something.
> > Switch to another console, log in, and when I switch back, I
> > have the login msg at the bottom of my screen.
> >
> > 1) Jun 11 11:17:47 freepuppy login: ROOT LOGIN (toor) ON ttyv2
> >
> > [root root]# uname -a
> > FreeBSD freepuppy.local 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #2: Mon Jun 11
> 13:02:42
> > CEST 2001     toor@freepuppy.local:/usr/src/sys/compile/FREEPUPPY  i386
> >

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