From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 22:57:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA5A37B402 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:57:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from ninja.amphex.com (213-187-172-124.dd.nextgentel.com [213.187.172.124]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A586963F; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:57:47 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:57:46 +0100 From: J.S. To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Annoying startup output Message-Id: <20020312075746.286c7bcc.johann@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20020311173853.GB721@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020311161614.0a34fdba.johann@broadpark.no> <20020311173853.GB721@hades.hell.gr> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 That's what I find odd as well. But note these are system console messages. Does that too get redirected? start) /usr/bin/su -l ftpd -c '/home/ftpd/openftpd/sbin/ftpd -q' > /dev/null & && echo -n ' openftpd' ;; stop) Regards, J.S. On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:38:54 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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