Hey I stopped the sysklogd as well as commented out the *.emerg * line and I still get those NET messages. Any suggestions?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:51 PM Subject: Re: [leaf-user] A NET question > > "Omar D. Samuels" wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > "Omar D. Samuels" wrote: > > > > > > > > Now that I'm over that hurdle and I am getting more the hang of this > > mialing > > > > list, I would like to dare to ask for help with another issue... please. > > > > > > > > I a using Eigerstein2... does anyone know if there is any way to > > suppress > > > > the NET messages? They look like this: > > > > > > > > "NET: # messages suppressed" > > [ snip ] > > > > Bottomline, if you identify the root cause of this message flooding, and > > > correct it, then you will no longer witness these 'NET ... suppressed' > > > messages. > > Please, reconsider what I am saying in the statement above. IMHO, that > is really what you want to do . . . > > > Hey, y'know what, that actually makes a lot of sense. Based on what you > > have said, is it possible to turn of syslogd and stop getting those > > messages? The thing is that I don't at all mind it suppressing, but I don't > > want it printing the message to screen. > > Yes: > > svi sysklogd stop > > However, you really do *NOT* want to do this! > > Look near the end of your /etc/syslog.conf -- is there something like > these? > > *.emerg * > > *.err |/dev/console > > I'm not familiar with Eigerstein, so I don't know what the installed > default it; but, on Dachstein the default is the *.emerg line. That > line means that any messages of priority `emerg' or higher will go to > every local tty. The problem is, the only severity higher than emerg is > panic. My point here is that the underlying cause of this message is > probably important if it is showing up on your console. > > Besides, even if this message is *not* important, shutting off syslogd > will shutdown most logging on your system. Logging is good. Logging > allows you to troubleshoot things when they go wrong. Things will go > wrong. > > What do you think? > > -- > > Best Regards, > > mds > mds resource > 888.250.3987 > > Dare to fix things before they break . . . > > Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we > think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
