Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:49:38 +0100 From: Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stopping console messages Message-ID: <3A631C12.41A7BC07@i-clue.de> References: <3A631999.A9EB471@mail.iowna.com>
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Bill Moran schrieb: > > Is there a way to stop the system from logging to the console? man syslog.conf man syslogd tells the whole story. To put it short: remove references to console in /etc/syslog.conf to quiet the thing, then killall -HUP syslogd to make it read the config file again. > Most of these messages are just regular notices (like upsd's regular > stat reports) or minor warnings (like problems with sendmail and the > DHCP assigned IPs) > Regardless, I'm admining this on a part-time basis, so the messages > scrolling across the console aren't much help (I'm always checking the > various log files) And they sure get in the way when they pop up while > you're trying to edit a file or something. > Is there a way to change the threshold on this so only critical messages > pop up. That way I could tell the people there that any time they see > messages popping up on the screen they should call me. Either way, it > would be nice to simply not have work around all those messages. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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