Re: Strange messages on all terminals
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 11:31, Scott Henson wrote:
> I am having a problem with all my virtual terminals(ctr-alt-F<1-6>) For
> some reason a constant stream of information is sent to all of them. It
> seems to be something to do with my internet connection, because its
> specifying MAC addresses and a couple of other things which makes me
> think its displaying all incomming packets to the terminals. Now this
> is not affecting X or any of the X-terms, but its sure a bother while
> working in a virtual terminal. I am running woody and a 2.4.19 ac
> pre-patch. Anyone have an idea why this is happening. Its been going
> on for a while now and I tried re-compiling the kernel taking out all
> verbose debug messages having to do with the net connection. I am also
> running the new isc dhcp client 3.0, but this was happening before with
> the old 2.2 version. Im not sure what else might be causing this. This
> is especially embaracing because Im trying to get a bunch of my friends
> to switch from windows, and having all that trash there and not knowing
> what is causeing it is not a major selling point. Anyone have an idea?
> Thanks.
Sounds like syslog.conf (or whatever syslog daemon you use) was
modified.
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