On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 14:51 +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > 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". Thanks Erik - I issued the command 'dmesg -n 1' and it has stopped the messages going to the consoles. The reason I asked about iptables was that I never had this problem before I started using iptables for NAT routing. I use kmyfirewall to setup the iptables. > > > Erik > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
