Abd El-Hameed Ayad wrote: > Peace, > I have messages like (on a centos 3.8 box) > > NET: 21 messages suppressed. > martian source 10.255.255.255 from 10.0.0.138, on dev eth0 > > > on my screen. In the same time it is being logged to a file. > Are there any way to stop the logging of these messages on the console > and still logged to a file (/var/log/messages) > Add a pound sign to the head of any lines that end in /dev/console in /etc/syslog.conf eg: #kern.* /dev/console If you really want all kernel messages logged to a file, you can change the above to point to /var/log/kern (that is, you don't have to comment it out with a pound sign) and create appropriate entries in the log rotation configuration.