Thank you very much for your concern. Here is a snapshot of my syslog.conf file (pound sign already exists) # Log all kernel messages to the console. # Logging much else clutters up the screen. #kern.* /dev/console # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher. # Don't log private authentication messages! *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages # The authpriv file has restricted access. authpriv.* /var/log/secure # Log all the mail messages in one place. mail.* -/var/log/maillog # Log cron stuff cron.* /var/log/cron # Everybody gets emergency messages *.emerg * # Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file. uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler # Save boot messages also to boot.log local7.* /var/log/boot.log Hameed Feizhou wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >