From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 7:38:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5743737B401 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 07:38:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtprelay9.dc2.adelphia.net (smtprelay9.dc2.adelphia.net [64.8.50.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4759343E91 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 07:38:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from barbish@a1poweruser.com) Received: from barbish ([68.65.175.221]) by smtprelay9.dc2.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id H637GK02.14J; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:38:44 -0500 Reply-To: From: "JoeB" To: "David Kelly" , , Subject: RE: dhclient too verbose in /var/log/messages Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:38:45 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200211240919.14313.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You have to change the level keyword in /etc/syslog.conf to select or not to select what type of messages you want to log. The level describes the severity of the message, and is a keyword from the following ordered list (higher to lower): emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info and debug. You may want to start with warning as notice, info, and debug generates the kind of general operational msgs you are seeing. For more details read the man page on syslog.conf -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Kelly Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 10:19 AM To: davidd@datasphereweb.com; questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhclient too verbose in /var/log/messages On Sunday 24 November 2002 12:48 am, David Daugherty wrote: > It's not much to go on but you might be able to find something under > 'man dhclient.conf' BTDT. "/log" results in no hits in "man dhclient.conf". Same results for "/verb" looking for verbose. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of David > > Kelly Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:27 AM > > To: questions@FreeBSD.org > > Subject: dhclient too verbose in /var/log/messages > > > > > > For the last year or so something changed in dhclient and/or > > my ISP resulting in dhclient being way too chatty with syslog > > and flooding /var/log/messages with this about every 75 > > minutes, when my DHCP lease is renewed: > > > > Nov 21 05:43:00 Frisket dhclient: New Network Number: > > 24.214.110.0 Nov 21 05:43:00 Frisket dhclient: New Broadcast > > Address: 24.214.110.255 > > > > I don't see any ready way to configure dhclient to mute this > > output. > > > > Placing a sed filter in /etc/syslog.conf would be one way to > > stifle the chattyness but that should be the avenue of last > > resort. How might I convince dhclient to be quiet and/or log > > elsewhere? > > > > -- > > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > > =================================================================== > >== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ==================================================================== = The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message