[u-u] Unwanted console messages

[David Collier-Brown]

On 01/19/2015 06:10 PM, Hello Kittyhawk wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2015, arocker at Vex.Net wrote:
> |
> |Possibly coincident with an OS version (Mandriva)  upgrade, I've been
> |getting messages blasting all over open console windows. I think they're
> |essentially all repetition of the following block:
> |
> |Message from syslogd at localhost at Jan 19 16:31:39 ...
> | kernel:MC4_STATUS: Corrected error, other errors lost: no, CPU context
> |corrupt: no
> |
> |Message from syslogd at localhost at Jan 19 16:31:39 ...
> | kernel:Northbridge Error, node 0
> |
> |Message from syslogd at localhost at Jan 19 16:31:39 ...
> | kernel:Link Transmission error.
> |
> |Message from syslogd at localhost at Jan 19 16:31:39 ...
> | kernel:Transaction type: generic(generic), no timeout, Cache Level:
> |L3/generic, Participating Processor: local node observed as 3rd party
> |(OBS)
> |
> |They're not useful, since nothing appears seriously wrong, and there's
> |nothing I can do about it anyway.
>
> 	either a software bug (or possibly a config botch
> 	showing up with new o/s version) - or an underlying
> 	hardware issue which the newer o/s version may take
> 	more seriously & thus warrant further investigation
>
>
> |/etc/syslog.conf shows everything going to /var/log/ files. How can I stop
> |this spewing all over my screens? (Really annoying when editing, or trying
> |to follow a train of thought.)
>
> 	most modern unices have multiple consoles available
> 	on the vga/keyboard hardware, often visible via
> 	<ALT-F[2-4]> ... we tend to disable primary console
> 	input completely to make it read-only (which also is
> 	a lame kind of security-by-obscurity against random
> 	opportunists :)
>
>
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One of the options in (r)syslog.conf is "shout loudly to everyone" by 
writing to /dev/console
It can be changed at need.

--dave

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