On Oct 13, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Kevin Glick wrote:
Lynette,
System messages print out to the console on tty0 only, by default. If you
want to use the console, switch to tty1 or above. Do this by ALT+2(tty1),
ALT+3(tty2), etc.
When you're in Vi, and syslog prints across the screen, using CTRL+L will
re-draw the screen, and remove the syslog messages.
If you want to get rid of the messages altogether, look into disabling
syslogd, via /etc/rc.conf. (Man syslogd, or check /etc/defaults/rc.conf for
syslogd.
Kevin Glick ITS Manager Sterling Business Forms [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynette Tillner Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how do I suppress system messages?
This is something that drives me crazy but I've not been able to find a way
to stop it.
When I log into my FreeBSD 4.6 Web Server as root, I get messages from
sendmail that I can't suppress with dmesg. They are a real pain because
they even come across the screen when I'm using VI to edit files and then I
can't figure out the line I was in the middle of editing, and end up doing a
:q! and starting over, very frustrating because we get tons of mail and it
seems like I can't do anything as root because of these messages.
Is there a command that will suppress the messages? I remember being able
to do that when I was working on an HP-UX system but haven't figured it out
under FreeBSD.
Thanks for any help!
Lynette
You can also disable this by editing the file /etc/syslog.conf and commenting out the following line:
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console
Simply put a # in front, save the file, and restart syslogd by doing the following as root:
# killall -1 syslogd
HTH ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks
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