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Re: unwanted console messages



Thus spake Adam John Henry (hank@linuxfreemail.com):

> My virtual consoles are being bombarded with spam from my firewall,
> and I wish to stop it.  Editing '/etc/syslog.conf' doesn't do the
> trick, however, and I'm curious what other program is printing these
> messages.
> 
> Only my active console gets these messages.  Any advice is
> appreciated.

I have seen repeated suggestions on the Firestarter mailing list to
execute 'dmesg -n1' as root to stop most console messages.  Works fine
for me for stopping firewall messages.


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