[syslog-ng] how to avoid logging to consoles?

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Mon May 23 18:08:35 CEST 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 17:15 +0200, iv wrote:
> hi all
> i'm trying to configure syslog-ng for logging events from firewall
> everything works fine, except one thing: all messages appear on all my 
> consoles
> how can i avoid that? it makes impossible working with the console, logs 
> appear even while editing files
> and situation does't change when i comment out all "log" entries in the 
> syslog-ng.conf file
> please, any ideas:)

short answer: "dmesg -n1"

long answer: syslog-ng does not change kernel logging parameters on its
own, which is performed automatically by klogd. but you can do the same
using dmesg.

-- 
Bazsi



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