Subject: Re: Getting rid of messages to console
To: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
From: Rob Windsor <windsor@warthog.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/05/1999 13:57:40
Verily did Grant Stockly write:

> I'm getting tons of console messages on my NetBSD boxes.  There is a
> person sending out mass port scans to the computers on the cable modem
> I'm a part of.

> I tried changing the entry in syslog.conf from /dev/console to
> /var/log/consolelog (I created a file for it) and it still outputs
> messages to the console.

> I couldn't find an answer in the faq for this question.

> Could anyone please help me?

Did you "kill -HUP <syslogd-pid>"?

-- Rob
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