On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:33:06 +0300 (EEST) > Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I'm just wondering how one can make the bridging tools stop spamming >> the virtual consoles? I would rather have all those "entering >> forwarding state", "entering learning state" and "entering disabled >> state" messages go to a log than have them plastered all over >> whichever console I happened to be logged into to work. >> >> Thanks! > > Assuming you are running relatively recent kernel, the messages show up > at loglevel 6 (informational). Noted. Linux omena 2.6.11-imac #2 Thu Jun 23 11:44:22 EEST 2005 ppc GNU/Linux ...and other similar 2.6 kernels also on my i386 and hppa hosts. > You need to change the console log level and possibly change syslog.conf. > To change console log level, either boot without "debug" on the command line, > preferably with "quiet" on the command line. Sorry, to which kernel option are you refering, exactly? My bootloader options are already rather spartan as it is; no debug there: root=/dev/hda1 ro elevator=cfq > In /etc/syslog.conf look for anylines of the form: > > kern.* /dev/console > > and either comment it out completely, or change the '*' to > > kern.notice /dev/console The only item that could reach the console there is: *.emerg * All other logs are configured to go to specific log files. -- Martin-Eric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi
