From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 11:22:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77F237B422 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:21:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a099.otenet.gr [212.205.215.99]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2BJLD1S015977; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:21:14 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2BJKlYE001677; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:21:12 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2BHcunw000824; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:38:56 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) X-Authentication-Warning: hades.hell.gr: charon set sender to keramida@freebsd.org using -f Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:38:54 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "J.S." Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Annoying startup output Message-ID: <20020311173853.GB721@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020311161614.0a34fdba.johann@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020311161614.0a34fdba.johann@broadpark.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On 2002-03-11 16:16, J.S. wrote: > Hi. > > I'm really annoyed with the amount of kernel output some daemons get spit > out on startup. > > This is how it all looks on my screen. As you can see, postfix, snort and > vmware are the ones causing the noise: > > ##### > Local package initialization: mysqldpostfix/postfix-script: starting the > Postfix mail system > apache dnetc openftpd rtcFeb 19 21:59:12 ninja /kernel: lnc0: promiscuous > mode enabled > snort sshdFeb 19 21:59:18 ninja /kernel: /dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: > registered w ith major=200 minor=0 tag=$Name: build-570 $ > Feb 19 21:59:18 ninja /kernel: /dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized > vmware. > ##### > > Postfix makes a mess even though it's not a kernel message. You can always edit the scripts at /usr/local/etc/rc.d and redirect the output of all the 'verbose' commands to /dev/null. That will 'hide' the messages you are annoyed with :-) Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message