On 05/12/2010 10:02 PM, Ken Stephens wrote:
> Carlos Konstanski wrote:
>> I am working with debian squeeze on an Apple Xserve. There is a lot of
>> stderr spewage because of unhappy hardware. that's not the problem; the
>> problem is that stderr spews to all ttys. It is hard to get anything done
>> with all the spewage. Is there a way to send all stderr output to tty12 like
>> a normal distro?
>>
>> Carlos
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> Carlos,
> 
> Have you looked at the /etc/rsyslog.conf file?  That's where the logging 
> is configured in Debian.
> 
> Ken Stephens
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Thanks! I found this in there:

#
# Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in.
#
*.emerg                *

and commented it out. I'll see if it did the trick tomorrow. I'm at home
right now, and it appears that ssh shells aren't being spammed.

Carlos
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