Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:53:12 -0500 From: Eric Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> To: "Lynette Tillner" <ltillner@avs-1.com> Cc: Kevin Glick <keving@sbfnet.com> Subject: Re: how do I suppress system messages? Message-ID: <5A62372C-1E55-11D9-94C4-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> In-Reply-To: <00ae01c4b21d$80139820$0601a8c0@M2> References: <20041013190901.1959D43D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <E2DCB4D2-1D4B-11D9-8BCD-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> <00ae01c4b21d$80139820$0601a8c0@M2>
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--Apple-Mail-2--757492063 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Oct 14, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Lynette Tillner wrote: > I did this, and even did a reboot of the server but the messages > haven't > stopped. Since this is a machine managed by my ISP (I don't have a > full > dedicated server, just a Virtual Private Server with 2 gig of disk > space) > could something be overriding my syslog.conf file? I looked at > rc.conf but > didn't see anything that I thought was appropriate to comment out. > > Also, I can't switch to another tty because my only access is remote > --- I > don't have console access. > > Thanks! > Lynette > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Crist" <ecrist@secure-computing.net> > To: "Kevin Glick" <keving@sbfnet.com> > Cc: "'Lynette Tillner'" <ltillner@avs-1.com>; > <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:12 PM > Subject: Re: how do I suppress system messages? > > 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 >> I'm sure this is something that is being overridden by your ISP and the jail system they have set up. I would suggest you talk to them and see if they have something they can do to disable it. HTH ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks --Apple-Mail-2--757492063 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) iEYEARECAAYFAkFvO5gACgkQRAAY9knOW+rmawCfQlE0/aJtOR0UnHFiYHSwc0mo pnEAn30Kbdv+UOPGFK+C7qPc4joJJttW =21VG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-2--757492063--
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