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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.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 21:33:38 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 14 Message-ID: <331FA8B2.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <33183412.2309156@news.eclipse.net> 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) To: Darren Layne <layne@cnj.digex.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36723 Darren Layne wrote: > > This is probably a dumb question with a simple solution, but is there > any way to suppress console messages and have them rerouted to a file? > > I use the system console as my primary terminal and am tired of > getting interuppted by system level messages. So edit /etc/syslog.conf and tell it not to do that. :-) The apropos command is your friend. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.