remove shutdown messages in console

[Warner Losh]

On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:

> On 2/2/14, 6:07 PM, Reza Mirzazadeh wrote:
>> hi . how can i remove shutdown messages in console ? or even print my
>> arbitrary messages in console ?
>> 
>> 
>> *** FINAL System shutdown message from root at geekiam ***
>> System going down IMMEDIATELY
>> 
>> some messages like these ! i don't want it print theses messages
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> we implimented the consmute sysctl option to "mute" an otherwise configured console for exactly this purpose.
> (and boot messages).

Except these are different beast. They aren't kernel messages, but generated by userland...

to get rid of these, hack /etc/syslog.conf to get rid of the *.emerg * line.
Or hack shutdown to stop sending them....
Or use 'halt' and 'reboot' only

Warner