freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 191, Issue 37

[Adam J Richardson]

blix wrote:
> my console and messages file is filling up with these entries:

Hi Dan.

I hate console spam. Whenever I go to log into my server's ttyv0 [which 
happens about four times a year], instead of the getty prompt I see 
reams of out-of-date console errors which I would much rather have 
vanish into the syslog daemon but somehow don't.

I read somewhere about how you can edit syslog.conf to redirect errors 
to ttyv0 into /var/log/messages, but obviously I misunderstood because 
it didn't work. Try Googling for syslog.conf howtos, you might have 
better luck than I did.

That error actually looks pretty severe to me. I'd run some diagnostics 
on da3, like Spinrite for instance. Or just replace da3, if it's 
something easily replaceable like a USB stick.

HtH,
Adam J Richardson