A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? A: No. Q: Should I leave quotations after my reply? On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:26:45PM +1000, Rod Butcher wrote: > > AFAICS nothing is wrong. > thanks for the responses Erik. But why would the output go to consoles, > apparently at random ? It's interfering with jobs running on these > consoles. Does this mean that I need to tell IPTables to send all > messages to the syslog ? Like I said: it depends on the loglevel of the messages. Iptables has nothing to do with it, iptables is only used to change the netfilter rules, it doesn't mess with the log level and it doesn't tell syslog what to do. If you want to change from what level things are printed on the console, use dmesg. See "man dmesg". Erik -- Erik Mouw J.A.K.Mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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