How do I stop services printing messages to my terminal?
 

Hello fellow Linux users,

Every now and then on my non-graphical console-orientated Debian Squeeze system, some services see it fit to spill their juices all over what I am doing.

A message about a service stopping/starting/restarting prints at the location of my cursor ontop of whatever I was doing at that moment, forcing me to either redraw ( if the currently running application supports it ), background and then foreground what I'm doing or clear the screen if at the shell.

Common examples:
How can I stop these messages appearing? Even better would be to send them to /dev/tty8 where I've configured rsyslogd to write.

Thanks in advance

Regards, William

'man dmesg': 'dmesg -n [level]' where level is whatever kernel.h defines in 'man 2 syslog' (between 0 and 7).


If they are not already duplicates of what you configured in your daemon configuration files or /etc/rsyslog.conf then they just are inconsequential console output.

Thankyou - I've now set my console loglevel to 6 instead of its default 7. Also from what I read, messages have a loglevel between & including 0 to 7, while the user chooses a loglevel between & including 1 to 8. The reason behind this is messages < loglevel ( as opposed to <= ) are displayed.



I don't know then why the default loglevel is set to 7 so these messages are printed. Most users do not care, and as you say, they are inconsequential.

Regards, William