Re: patch: make syslog stop spamming any root it finds...

2002-04-08 Thread George Georgalis

On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:39:51AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   I have always hated the three lines in /etc/syslog.conf which spams
   root with far too many and far too irrellevant syslog messages, in
   some cases even with several copies of them.
  
  Amen to that. You got my vote. Usually when I set up a FreeBSD box, it's
  the first thing I turn off. I say commit it.
 
 Likewise, it's the first thing I turn off, as well as the *.emerg line
 that broadcasts to all users.

Same here. First things removed on a fresh FreeBSD install. Please
commit.


Not only the first thing I do with a new FreeBSD box, the first thing I did on 
FreeBSD: remove those 3 lines from syslog.conf that tell you how many people are 
poping their mail etc.

// George

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Re: patch: make syslog stop spamming any root it finds...

2002-04-07 Thread sthaug

   I have always hated the three lines in /etc/syslog.conf which spams
   root with far too many and far too irrellevant syslog messages, in
   some cases even with several copies of them.
  
  Amen to that. You got my vote. Usually when I set up a FreeBSD box, it's
  the first thing I turn off. I say commit it.
 
 Likewise, it's the first thing I turn off, as well as the *.emerg line
 that broadcasts to all users.

Same here. First things removed on a fresh FreeBSD install. Please
commit.

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Re: patch: make syslog stop spamming any root it finds...

2002-04-05 Thread Emiel Kollof

* Poul-Henning Kamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 
 I have always hated the three lines in /etc/syslog.conf which spams
 root with far too many and far too irrellevant syslog messages, in
 some cases even with several copies of them.

Amen to that. You got my vote. Usually when I set up a FreeBSD box, it's
the first thing I turn off. I say commit it.

(although it's not really a hard job turning it off after an install,
but hey, I'm lazy :-)

Cheers,
Emiel
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Re: patch: make syslog stop spamming any root it finds...

2002-04-05 Thread Peter Wemm

Emiel Kollof wrote:
 * Poul-Henning Kamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
  
  I have always hated the three lines in /etc/syslog.conf which spams
  root with far too many and far too irrellevant syslog messages, in
  some cases even with several copies of them.
 
 Amen to that. You got my vote. Usually when I set up a FreeBSD box, it's
 the first thing I turn off. I say commit it.

Likewise, it's the first thing I turn off, as well as the *.emerg line
that broadcasts to all users.

Note however that having syslogd whine to root logins is kind of a
discouragement to actually log in as root, and rather have people log in
and 'su' instead.  But even then, it's I would rather see it dead. :-)


Cheers,
-Peter
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Re: patch: make syslog stop spamming any root it finds...

2002-04-05 Thread Garance A Drosihn

At 11:27 PM +0200 4/5/02, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
For the life of me I cannot understand why we feel the
need to whine like that at any root which crosses our
way, so unless somebody can explain to me why this is
vital, I'll commit the following patch.

There are times when it has been useful to me to have
the messages show up immediately on a root-login window,
instead of at some later time when I happen to read
/var/log/messages.  Of course, there are other times
when it absolutely infuriates me when some dumb message
pops up in the middle of what I'm doing -- particularly
if it's a message triggered by something I'm testing.

As to your patch, how about leaving the line for *.alert
there, but commented out.  That would just leave it as
an example to show how syslog messages can go to a
logged-in user.

But when I saw the subject for this thread, I admit I was
hoping you meant something different.  Is there any good
way we could say send to a root login on ttyv0, but NOT
to root logged onto any other device?  That way, when I
wouldn't mind syslog spamming me, I could login to the
first virtual terminal, and when I didn't want it I could
log into any of the other ones.  I guess I'm asking for a
new action type, something like:

*.alert root@/dev/ttyv0

or maybe just

*.alert root@ttyv0

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