Re: Disable kernel messages on the console

[Michael Parson <mparson%bl.org@localhost>]

On 2018-06-27 17:25, Cág wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to completely disable kernel messages on the console
> (they are green by default)? "boot -q" reduces verbosity, but "boot -z"
> doesn't disable them, instead reducing verbosity of init (white on 
> black
> by default). Setting kern.messages to 0 with sysctl doesn't seem to 
> help
> either.
>
> Thanks!

Edit /etc/syslog.conf and change the destination for anything writing to 
/dev/console to write to a file, like maybe /var/log/console.

Then kill -HUP `head 1 /var/run/syslog.pid`

You will probably also want to add that file to your newsyslog.conf to 
have it rotated periodically.

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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
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