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) Thank you. Hameed