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Date:      Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:22:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syslog-free console/vty possible?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980105192156.1402L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980103225202.25787B-100000@dot.ishiboo.com>

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On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Atipa wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was setting up a new machine, and was having cabling difficulties. I 
> was getting so many error messages on the console that I couldn't really 
> do anything without <CTRL-L>ing every other second.
> 
> How can you make a syslog free console? Is there any way I can make 
> /dev/console appear only on ttyv0?
> 
> I even changed the /dev/console line to /dev/null in /etc/syslog.conf and 
> HUP syslog but it still didn't work. Is there such an option in either 
> /etc/syslog.conf or /etc/ttys to fix this?

It depends on what's generating the messages.  If they're in
high-intensity, they're coming from the kernel, so you'll have to shut up
the kernel to quiet the messages.  Kernel messages aren't reroutable using
syslogd; they always go on the console.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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