[please cc me, I am not on the list] Hi,
after an upgrade to Woody (kernel unchanged, syslog.conf unchanged), several facilities log to the console now, including isdnutils, drivers, apm and ipchains. Not all messages are logged, but eg DENY packets, driver status messages when doing insmod or 'doing suspend/resume now' stuff. The only thing that kept popping up before was a message "apmd: Display not set" or similar everytime I changed to X and back, which I commented out in the sources. The new behaviour is quite irritating when I try to read mail or browse the web and have to type ^l every minute or so (just now again, btw :( ) to get the screen back to a sane display. My syslog.conf looks quite reasonable to me, I don't remember changing anything major from the original file. Leaving out the mail and news part: auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log kern.* -/var/log/kern.log lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log mail.* /var/log/mail.log user.* -/var/log/user.log uucp.* -/var/log/uucp.log *.=debug;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ news.none;mail.none -/var/log/debug *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ cron,daemon.none;\ mail,news.none -/var/log/messages daemon,mail.*;\ news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\ *.=debug;*.=info;\ *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty12 local2.* -/var/log/ppp.log Do I have to shut up my computer on kernel level, is my syslog.conf wrong, or did I miss something else alltogether? thanks, Michael -- "time to dist-upgrade those boxes that aren't already running woody!" -- CmdrTaco commenting the potato release