Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:12:54 -0500 From: Eric Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> To: "Kevin Glick" <keving@sbfnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do I suppress system messages? Message-ID: <E2DCB4D2-1D4B-11D9-8BCD-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> In-Reply-To: <20041013190901.1959D43D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20041013190901.1959D43D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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--Apple-Mail-4--871509221 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Oct 13, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Kevin Glick wrote: > Lynette, > > System messages print out to the console on tty0 only, by default. If > you > want to use the console, switch to tty1 or above. Do this by > ALT+2(tty1), > ALT+3(tty2), etc. > When you're in Vi, and syslog prints across the screen, using CTRL+L > will > re-draw the screen, and remove the syslog messages. > If you want to get rid of the messages altogether, look into disabling > syslogd, via /etc/rc.conf. (Man syslogd, or check > /etc/defaults/rc.conf for > syslogd. > > Kevin Glick > ITS Manager > Sterling Business Forms > keving@sbfnet.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Lynette Tillner > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:21 AM > To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org > Subject: how do I suppress system messages? > > This is something that drives me crazy but I've not been able to find > a way > to stop it. > > When I log into my FreeBSD 4.6 Web Server as root, I get messages from > sendmail that I can't suppress with dmesg. They are a real pain > because > they even come across the screen when I'm using VI to edit files and > then I > can't figure out the line I was in the middle of editing, and end up > doing a > :q! and starting over, very frustrating because we get tons of mail > and it > seems like I can't do anything as root because of these messages. > > Is there a command that will suppress the messages? I remember being > able > to do that when I was working on an HP-UX system but haven't figured > it out > under FreeBSD. > > Thanks for any help! > > Lynette You can also disable this by editing the file /etc/syslog.conf and commenting out the following line: *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console Simply put a # in front, save the file, and restart syslogd by doing the following as root: # killall -1 syslogd HTH ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks --Apple-Mail-4--871509221 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkFtfjcACgkQRAAY9knOW+psrwCeN7MupRcBPSQAS2IJUPZfj3GO Wr0An2p1sv2P+KTied1TKEWM650C8MEj =/Xy2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-4--871509221--
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