Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:27:36 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Per Hjeltman" <per_hjeltman@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Annoying messages Message-ID: <15146.7000.167603.530751@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <114336338@toto.iv>
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Per Hjeltman <per_hjeltman@hotmail.com> types: > I am starting to become seriously annoyed by one "feature" of FreeBSD > 4.3-STABLE. Namely, 'informative' messages from the kernel are sprinkled > over every virtual terminal. So that, if I do a simple 'su' iv ttyv2, there > will be a message proclaiming this in ttyv0, ttyv1, ..., etc > > Usually such messages would only be visible on ttyv0. Why is 4.3-STABLE > spamming them all over the place? It's not spamming them all over the place, it's printing htem on every terminal root is logged into. The best way to make this stop is to quit logging in as root, and log in as a regular user. You can remove that bit of security by changing all the "root" actions in syslog.conf to something else, or removing those lines, then HUPping syslogd. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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