heya, i think the solution to your problem lies in syslog.conf(5)
look for kern.* type messages going to /dev/console. make an edit and
restart syslog.
sean
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:46:51AM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote:
>
> Hello. I have a wireless access point connected to my Debian (woody)
> desktop machine at home. I have a laptop (running Debian sarge) which
> has a wireless PCMCIA card. The desktop machine is set up as a very
> simple router for the home network.
>
> This all works well apart from one annoyance. Even though the wireless
> connection (from the laptop to the WAP to the desktop to the net)
> seems perfectly fine to me, as far as performance is concerned, I get
> a lot of performance-related error messages on the laptop screen. If
> I'm using X, of course, they don't show up (no console), but I'm not
> always using X and don't want to have to use it all the time.
>
> But often the messages come so thick and fast that it becomes very
> difficult to use, say, emacs or vi.
>
> I was thinking that I could probably get around this difficulty by
> redirecting the console output to some dedicated virtual terminal. I
> think I can do that by putting a line like:
>
> append="console=/dev/tty6"
>
> in /etc/lilo.conf.
>
> But how risky would this be? Or does anyone know of other possible
> solutions to the problem?
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Jim
>
>
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