Re: [BUG] v2.2.12: log_martians is bleeding through on console.

Hirling Endre (endre@darmol.elte.hu)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:28:58 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, System Administrator wrote:

> ----- Message Text -----
> Hi,
>
> When you have turned-on "/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians"
> The messages get both in the syslog
> _AND_
> they bleed through on the current console, that is a bug no?!

No. Just reduce the console log level to get rid of it.

dmesg -n 1 or start klogd with '-c 1' option to get only critical
errors logged on the console.

> Note:
> I have no cfg setup in syslog.conf to put "kern.*" msg's on
> "/dev/console"...
> I have however setup for everybody to receive "*.emerg" but this is hardly
> a system EMERGENCY I think...

It's not syslogd that writes those messages on the console, it's the
kernel. See above.

> No need to reply, as I'm NOT on the list AND this adress is...[guess ;-)]

I'm replying in the hope that you read the answers to your problems at
least on usenet. If you don't, you should shut your complaining mouth
(in which case you don't read my flame either :>).

greetings
endre

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