On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Michael Tant wrote: > I am still attempting to get the logging to stop dumping to console. > IPtables is the only one doing this. I am currently logging to a different > file by adding kern.warning /var/log/iptables.log to rsyslog.conf > and --log-level 4 argument for the LOG targets. The data is making it to > the file as specified, but is also being echoed to console if one of the > tty's is displayed. It does echo to console in an X environment though, > even a Konsole. I have check and found no logging references in the > sysctl.conf file. I have completely removed the line: #kern.* > /dev/console from the rsyslog.conf file, and have looked for auxilliary > logging processes running and found none. I'm not skilled enough to fully > understand the sysctl -a output so that could be the next possible culprit. > If someone wants to take a look at that, rather than dumping it here and > flooding you with huge email, you can find this at: > http://fpaste.org/paste/6106 > > If there is something I'm overlooking or if there's some other way to fix > this and force the correct behavior please let me know. As I don't quite > have your skills with linux yet, please try to include as much information > as you can, to assist with the fix. Again this is under Fedora 10. > uname -a gives: Linux MTFedora 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Mon Feb > 23 13:21:22 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux if that gives any help.
my ubuntu desktop has the following in /etc/sysctl.conf # the following stops low-level messages on console kernel.printk = 4 4 1 7 _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
