syslog.conf console logging question

["Benedict Verheyen" <linux4bene@pandora.be>]

Hi,

i installed shorewall and it writes a lot of messages to the console.
I tried to edit syslog.conf and then running /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart
to remove all the clutter that goes to the console, but i failed 
miserably.

What i would want to do, is to log the messages that now appear
on the console i'm working on to say /dev/tty6. This should
always be the case and when i'm logged in on say /dev/tty4, it
shouldn't log to this console.

I have even tried to comment the "*.emerg    *" and the last
2 blocks of code ( *1* and *2* ) but the kernel messages
taht the shorewall firewall generates where still logged to my
console.

How can i solve this?

Also, i'm not sure what an xconsole is?

Thanks (full syslog.conf file included)

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#  /etc/syslog.conf Configuration file for syslogd.
#
#   For more information see syslog.conf(5)
#   manpage.

#
# First some standard logfiles.  Log by facility.
#

auth,authpriv.*   /var/log/auth.log
*.*;auth,authpriv.none  -/var/log/syslog
#cron.*    /var/log/cron.log
daemon.*   -/var/log/daemon.log
kern.*    -/var/log/kern.log
lpr.*    -/var/log/lpr.log
mail.*    -/var/log/mail.log
user.*    -/var/log/user.log
uucp.*    /var/log/uucp.log

#
# Logging for the mail system.  Split it up so that
# it is easy to write scripts to parse these files.
#
mail.info   -/var/log/mail.info
mail.warn   -/var/log/mail.warn
mail.err   /var/log/mail.err

# Logging for INN news system
#
news.crit   /var/log/news/news.crit
news.err   /var/log/news/news.err
news.notice   -/var/log/news/news.notice

#
# Some `catch-all' logfiles.
#
*.=debug;\
 auth,authpriv.none;\
 news.none;mail.none -/var/log/debug
*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
 auth,authpriv.none;\
 cron,daemon.none;\
 mail,news.none  -/var/log/messages

#
# Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in.
#
# commenting this didn't help
*.emerg    * 

#
# I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual
# console I usually leave idle.
#
# (1) i tried commenting this but that didn't seem to help
#all messages should go to /dev/tty6
daemon.*,mail.*;\
               news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
               *.=debug;*.=info;\
               *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty6

# The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility.  To use it,
# you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option:
# 
#    $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...]
#
# NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably
#      busy site..
#
# (2) i tried commenting this but that didn't seem to help
daemon.*;mail.*;\
               news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\
               *.=debug;*.=info;\
               *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole