Hi folks, --On 17. Oktober 2008 10:45:08 -0400 "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 12:13 +0200, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: >> Hi folks, > >> I have lots of messages like these appearing on my local CentOS 5.2 >> consoles: >> > Oct 17 12:03:29 machine kernel: printk: 1 messages suppressed. >> > Oct 17 12:03:29 machine kernel: pbond0: received packet with own >> > address >> as source address > >> So the question is: What process logs directly to the console bypassing >> syslog/kernel log facilities? How can I find where to stop that? > > It's the kernel itself. > > In a VC: > > setterm --msg off That did the trick, many thanks. But now I have 1000s of messages like "printk: 4 messages suppressed" in my /var/log/messages. Can I get rid of that, too? Dirk