On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 22:26, Daniel Bush wrote:
> am wondering if the LOG facility of iptables and syslogd are the
> problem. Have also disabled any '(x)console/tty' items from /etc/syslog.conf )
It's always possible you missed something...
In any case, I always found on my Debian systems that to be sane and
happy I would do the following:
rm /dev/console
ln -s /dev/tty2 /dev/console
[where 2 was a vt I removed the getty from and had it just for logging]
That, in turn, is a trick I learned from years and years ago on Xenix
systems when the default resulting in the same effect you're describing
- caused because /dev/console was pointing at /dev/tty0 - which results
in any and all console [virtual] ttys being sprayed.
I never actually saw anything like /dev/tty0 being linked to
/dev/console, but it sure seemed that way on my Debian boxes.
This all assumes that replacing /dev/console as I suggest is a sane and
ok idea - Lord knows I could have been committing some horrible faux
pas.
I'm sure the Debian people out there in our lovely community will have a
more authoritative answer for you; it hasn't ever seemed to be a problem
on my lovely shiny Gentoo machines... :)
AfC
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