Re: Bothering error message when logging out X

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:54:26PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> Every time I log out my Gnome X environment (Debian Etch), after a few
>> seconds
>> the following message appears:
>> 
>>  NET: Registered protocol family 10
>>  lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
>>  IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
>> 
>> .  I wonder what it means, and above all I wish to eliminate it!  Googling
>> around gave no help.  Can anybody help?



"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:

> These are kernel messages being posted to the terminal.  Do you get
> other kernel messages (e.g. like when you plug in a USB device)?
>
> See the top of /etc/sysctl.conf




Rodolfo:

>> Thanks, this worked: in /etc/sysctl.conf I uncommented the line:
>> 
>>  kernel.printk = 4 4 1 7
>> 
>> so to stop low-level messages on console, and that bothering message did not
>> appear any more.  But still, when I plug in my usb pendrive, the following
>> message appears:
>> 
>>  sda: assuming drive cache: write through
>> 
>> .  How can I avoid this as well, and all undesired kernel messages?




Douglas:

> Is the kernel putting that there, or is syslog?  Check your syslog
> setup, perhaps change the default message level that it spits out.
> There are somethings that you want to appear on __the_system_console__
> but not necessarily on every VT.  Syslog configs should allow you to
> tweak this.



I tried to edit /etc/syslog.conf but with no result: too difficult for me.
Any more precise indication of how to edit it so to tweak the messages
appearing on console?

Thanks
Rodolfo