From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 10:43:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.woodson.com (server.woodson.com [209.136.195.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D18E37BDCE for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:43:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lance@woodson.com) Received: from woodson.com ([130.184.140.74]) by server.woodson.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA67792; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:43:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from lance@woodson.com) Message-ID: <38CD36E7.80555E6D@woodson.com> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:43:51 -0600 From: Lance Woodson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ronald Klop , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no root login messages References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ronald Klop wrote: > > How can I turn of the messages on the tty's when root logs in? > I always get these anoying 'login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv2' messages. > I do want them in /var/log/messages, but not on the console. > It is just my home computer, so I am not really scared of somebody loging > in as root. > > It must have something to do with syslog, but I couldn't figure out which > setting it is. Just comment out the /dev/console line in /etc/syslog.conf i.e. *.err;auth.notice;mail.crit;kern.debug /dev/console becomes #*.err;auth.notice;mail.crit;kern.debug /dev/console Hope that helps. Lance Woodson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message