2009/1/5 Mary Gardiner <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009, Mary Gardiner wrote: >> Is it possible to suppress this message? Because of the fsck thing, such >> supression would ideally happen early in the boot process, ie before I >> have a prompt. > > Or at the very least, is it possible to either: > > - configure syslog to only write these messages out say, once an hour, > rather than once a second (preferred) > > or > > - configure syslog to write them out to a custom file (which would be > /dev/null in this case, I'd like my disk to have some hope of > spinning down one day)
Try installing rsyslog (http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-rsyslog_conf_filter.html). It's a drop-in replacement to syslog so I'd expect that even if your distro doesn't provide it (small chance: http://wiki.rsyslog.com/index.php/Platforms), it should still be possible to compile it from source without breaking stuff. I haven't got around to use it myself so I can't help with the configuration. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
