I did this, and even did a reboot of the server but the messages haven't stopped. Since this is a machine managed by my ISP (I don't have a full dedicated server, just a Virtual Private Server with 2 gig of disk space) could something be overriding my syslog.conf file? I looked at rc.conf but didn't see anything that I thought was appropriate to comment out.
Also, I can't switch to another tty because my only access is remote --- I don't have console access. Thanks! Lynette ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Crist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kevin Glick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Lynette Tillner'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:12 PM Subject: Re: how do I suppress system messages? 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 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
