Hi are syslog and stderr inextricably linked?

I have a old laptop that i use as a dumb terminal to program with.

atrd is playing up ,the kernel keeps complaining that it needs a re boot to fixthe prob(even after re booting)
My real question is can i stop syslogd sending the messages in the mean time because it prints over what I am workig on so I have to save ,come out of the document and then go back into it each time.

I know i should look into the artd thing but i'm busy with something else att and need a quick fix.
thnks in advance.

It sounds syslog is printing to your console? Have a look in /etc/syslog.conf for a line like the following, comment it out and restart syslog:

That stops the error from bugging you - it doesn't fix the error though...

lol.. nah..

i'll look at that another day..right now i just want to stick my head in the sand and mask the error from my console.


anyway.its already commented out ??
strange.

As root, run "dmesg -n 1" to block messages from the kernel as well (ie: iptables)