Re: how do I suppress system messages?
On Oct 14, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Lynette Tillner wrote: I did this, and even did a reboot of the server but the messages haven't stopped. Since this is a machine managed by my ISP (I don't have a full dedicated server, just a Virtual Private Server with 2 gig of disk space) could something be overriding my syslog.conf file? I looked at rc.conf but didn't see anything that I thought was appropriate to comment out. Also, I can't switch to another tty because my only access is remote --- I don't have console access. Thanks! Lynette - Original Message - From: "Eric Crist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kevin Glick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Lynette Tillner'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:12 PM Subject: Re: how do I suppress system messages? On Oct 13, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Kevin Glick wrote: Lynette, System messages print out to the console on tty0 only, by default. If you want to use the console, switch to tty1 or above. Do this by ALT+2(tty1), ALT+3(tty2), etc. When you're in Vi, and syslog prints across the screen, using CTRL+L will re-draw the screen, and remove the syslog messages. If you want to get rid of the messages altogether, look into disabling syslogd, via /etc/rc.conf. (Man syslogd, or check /etc/defaults/rc.conf for syslogd. Kevin Glick ITS Manager Sterling Business Forms [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sure this is something that is being overridden by your ISP and the jail system they have set up. I would suggest you talk to them and see if they have something they can do to disable it. HTH - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: how do I suppress system messages?
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:21:05 -0400 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lynette Tillner wrote: > [ ... ] > > Also, I can't switch to another tty because my only access is remote > > --- I don't have console access. > > You can get to another tty by logging into the machine again from > another SSH session. you may find /usr/ports/misc/screen and the builtin /usr/bin/window to be helpful utilities.. > -- > -Chuck > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how do I suppress system messages?
Lynette Tillner wrote: [ ... ] Also, I can't switch to another tty because my only access is remote --- I don't have console access. You can get to another tty by logging into the machine again from another SSH session. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how do I suppress system messages?
I did this, and even did a reboot of the server but the messages haven't stopped. Since this is a machine managed by my ISP (I don't have a full dedicated server, just a Virtual Private Server with 2 gig of disk space) could something be overriding my syslog.conf file? I looked at rc.conf but didn't see anything that I thought was appropriate to comment out. Also, I can't switch to another tty because my only access is remote --- I don't have console access. Thanks! Lynette - Original Message - From: "Eric Crist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kevin Glick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Lynette Tillner'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:12 PM Subject: Re: how do I suppress system messages? On Oct 13, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Kevin Glick wrote: > Lynette, > > System messages print out to the console on tty0 only, by default. If > you > want to use the console, switch to tty1 or above. Do this by > ALT+2(tty1), > ALT+3(tty2), etc. > When you're in Vi, and syslog prints across the screen, using CTRL+L > will > re-draw the screen, and remove the syslog messages. > If you want to get rid of the messages altogether, look into disabling > syslogd, via /etc/rc.conf. (Man syslogd, or check > /etc/defaults/rc.conf for > syslogd. > > Kevin Glick > ITS Manager > Sterling Business Forms > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynette Tillner > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: how do I suppress system messages? > > This is something that drives me crazy but I've not been able to find > a way > to stop it. > > When I log into my FreeBSD 4.6 Web Server as root, I get messages from > sendmail that I can't suppress with dmesg. They are a real pain > because > they even come across the screen when I'm using VI to edit files and > then I > can't figure out the line I was in the middle of editing, and end up > doing a > :q! and starting over, very frustrating because we get tons of mail > and it > seems like I can't do anything as root because of these messages. > > Is there a command that will suppress the messages? I remember being > able > to do that when I was working on an HP-UX system but haven't figured > it out > under FreeBSD. > > Thanks for any help! > > Lynette You can also disable this by editing the file /etc/syslog.conf and commenting out the following line: *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console Simply put a # in front, save the file, and restart syslogd by doing the following as root: # killall -1 syslogd HTH - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how do I suppress system messages?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynette Tillner Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how do I suppress system messages? This is something that drives me crazy but I've not been able to find a way to stop it. When I log into my FreeBSD 4.6 Web Server as root, I get messages from sendmail that I can't suppress with dmesg. They are a real pain because they even come across the screen when I'm using VI to edit files and then I can't figure out the line I was in the middle of editing, and end up doing a :q! and starting over, very frustrating because we get tons of mail and it seems like I can't do anything as root because of these messages. Is there a command that will suppress the messages? I remember being able to do that when I was working on an HP-UX system but haven't figured it out under FreeBSD. Thanks for any help! Lynette Kevin Glick wrote: Lynette, System messages print out to the console on tty0 only, by default. If you want to use the console, switch to tty1 or above. Do this by ALT+2(tty1), ALT+3(tty2), etc. When you're in Vi, and syslog prints across the screen, using CTRL+L will re-draw the screen, and remove the syslog messages. If you want to get rid of the messages altogether, look into disabling syslogd, via /etc/rc.conf. (Man syslogd, or check /etc/defaults/rc.conf for syslogd. Kevin Glick ITS Manager Sterling Business Forms [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some good advice here, for sure, but does she really want to disable syslogd, unless the only service she really cares about on this box is http (and unless she'd disabled a lot of stuff, it probably isn't...)?? IIRC, in /etc/syslog.conf, instruction is given on how to redirect ttyv0 output to /var/log/console.log, which seems a better option. Disabling syslogd would ((probably)) stop logging of some useful information (like auth.info) as well as the sendmail output that's "driving her crazy". Disclaimer: I'm not an expert, and don't [exactly] play one on questions@ ... My $0.02, Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how do I suppress system messages?
On Oct 13, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Kevin Glick wrote: Lynette, System messages print out to the console on tty0 only, by default. If you want to use the console, switch to tty1 or above. Do this by ALT+2(tty1), ALT+3(tty2), etc. When you're in Vi, and syslog prints across the screen, using CTRL+L will re-draw the screen, and remove the syslog messages. If you want to get rid of the messages altogether, look into disabling syslogd, via /etc/rc.conf. (Man syslogd, or check /etc/defaults/rc.conf for syslogd. Kevin Glick ITS Manager Sterling Business Forms [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynette Tillner Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how do I suppress system messages? This is something that drives me crazy but I've not been able to find a way to stop it. When I log into my FreeBSD 4.6 Web Server as root, I get messages from sendmail that I can't suppress with dmesg. They are a real pain because they even come across the screen when I'm using VI to edit files and then I can't figure out the line I was in the middle of editing, and end up doing a :q! and starting over, very frustrating because we get tons of mail and it seems like I can't do anything as root because of these messages. Is there a command that will suppress the messages? I remember being able to do that when I was working on an HP-UX system but haven't figured it out under FreeBSD. Thanks for any help! Lynette You can also disable this by editing the file /etc/syslog.conf and commenting out the following line: *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console Simply put a # in front, save the file, and restart syslogd by doing the following as root: # killall -1 syslogd HTH - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: how do I suppress system messages?
Lynette, System messages print out to the console on tty0 only, by default. If you want to use the console, switch to tty1 or above. Do this by ALT+2(tty1), ALT+3(tty2), etc. When you're in Vi, and syslog prints across the screen, using CTRL+L will re-draw the screen, and remove the syslog messages. If you want to get rid of the messages altogether, look into disabling syslogd, via /etc/rc.conf. (Man syslogd, or check /etc/defaults/rc.conf for syslogd. Kevin Glick ITS Manager Sterling Business Forms [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynette Tillner Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how do I suppress system messages? This is something that drives me crazy but I've not been able to find a way to stop it. When I log into my FreeBSD 4.6 Web Server as root, I get messages from sendmail that I can't suppress with dmesg. They are a real pain because they even come across the screen when I'm using VI to edit files and then I can't figure out the line I was in the middle of editing, and end up doing a :q! and starting over, very frustrating because we get tons of mail and it seems like I can't do anything as root because of these messages. Is there a command that will suppress the messages? I remember being able to do that when I was working on an HP-UX system but haven't figured it out under FreeBSD. Thanks for any help! Lynette ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
