On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:27:54PM +1000, Darren Noonan wrote:
> I'm running RH6.2, the problem I have is that certain system messages
> are going to the console.
>
> I have change the syslog.conf to try and stop it but nothing seems to
> work. I monitor this machine remotely and need some of the info in
> the logs and not the console.
Did you remember to restart syslogd?
kill -SIGHUP $(cat /var/run/syslogd.pid)
It doesn't read it's configuration file unless you tell it to. Similarly
if you remove the files it is writing to -- you will need to restart it
for the files to be recreated.
Cheers,
Malcolm
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