From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 11 16:30:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from k0r3.reflektor.cz (k0r3.reflektor.cz [212.24.129.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BA1237B405 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cynic@mail.cz) Received: (qmail 31271 invoked by uid 202); 11 Jun 2001 23:30:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zvahlav.mail.cz) (212.24.143.100) by k0r3.reflektor.cz with SMTP; 11 Jun 2001 23:30:43 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010611235057.020bd498@mail.cz> X-Sender: cynic@mail.cz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 00:01:51 +0200 To: Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Cynic Subject: Re: unwanted messages in console In-Reply-To: <441yoqln91.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010611161142.02071c08@mail.cz> <001201c0f282$5e186060$3200000a@Intranet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I'll probably just lower the level. I don't really need to be alerted that I mounted /cdrom on another vty, I know it. :) Especially when I'm the only one using the computer (it's not even connected to the Internet). At 23:28 11.6. 2001, Lowell Gilbert wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >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 >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ------end of quote------ cynic@mail.cz ------------- And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files. - Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message