Re: bin/47449: syslogd doesn't honor mesg n

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR bin/47449; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
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        dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/47449: syslogd doesn't honor mesg n
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:07:46 -0500

 On Jan 15,  5:55pm, dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost (David Holland) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: bin/47449: syslogd doesn't honor mesg n
 
 |  On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 04:55:05PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 |   >  Do you have an example syslogd implementation in mind that honors that?
 |   >  What about messages explicitly sent to that user?
 |  
 |  What do you mean?
 |  
 |  I routinely put
 |  
 |     stuff                    dholland
 |  
 |  in syslog.conf on server-type machines, but it's useful to be able to
 |  silence that in some ttys when working on them.
 
 That is exactly what I mean. I wanted your opinion on what to do for messages
 explicitly sent to the user. This leaves only one question unanswered :-)
 I want to know because I'd like to look at their implementation, not just
 from curiosity.
 
 christos