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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.be.com!news1.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Supress console messages and send to a file? Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 21:34:20 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <331FA8DC.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <33183412.2309156@news.eclipse.net> <slrn5hj9n0.pv6.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36667 H. Eckert wrote: > Use the virtual console screens and simply switch to a different one > before logging in. Log messages are sent to all virtual consoles though, > if you're logged in as root. Only if you have this: *.err root *.notice;auth.debug root *.alert root In /etc/syslog.conf -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.