On 944291461 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
Grant Stockly wrote:
>
>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?
>
>Thanks for your time,
>Grant
>

Are you logged in as root?  You might try also changing the lines:

*.emerg                                                 *
*.notice;auth.debug                                     root

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