Re: Firestarter bug?

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 21:09:14 -0500, Default User wrote:
> Very strange. 
> 
> I installed Firestarter on Debian Stable (i386).  It is picking up the
> routine periodic dhcp send events from my router, and sending them to to
> the tty consoles, where they overwrite part of the screen.  These are
> the same as what shows up in the Firestarter "events" screen.
> 
> Note: this does not occur on the X terminals (i.e., xterm), so it was
> not noticed until I did CTRL-ALT-F1 (or CTRL-ALT-F2, etc).  
> 
> I uninstalled Firestarter, and the behavior stopped.  I reinstalled
> Firestarter, and it started again. 
> 
> This makes it almost impossible to use the tty consoles.  Is there a way
> to stop Firestarter from writing to the tty consoles uninvited? 

You can either tell firestarter not to log these events anymore
(probably a bad idea) or you can tell klogd to stop echoing low-level
messages on the ttys. For the latter approach see for example here:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/07/msg00068.html

If you are worried about missing messages after you change the setting
then you can install the package "logcheck". It comes with a friendly
daemon which will send you an email notification whenever something
unusual is logged.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian