how do I suppress system messages?

[Xian]

Disabling syslog compleatly sounds like a very bad idea as the system logs can 
contain useful information.
You could try commenting out any lines in /etc/syslog.conf that end in /dev/
console. I think you have to restart syslogd after changing /etc/syslog.conf.

On Wednesday 13 October 2004 20:09, 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
> keving at sbfnet.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-newbies at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Lynette Tillner
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:21 AM
> To: freebsd-newbies at freebsd.org
> 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
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