[TriLUG] console messages about packets

[Glen Ford]

set LOGLEVEL=4 in /etc/sysconfig/init.

This seemed to work for me with iptables logging to my virtual consoles

/glen


Scott Lundgren wrote:

>I changed my default runlevel from 5 to 3 on my RH 8 box. Now that I'm not
>using the graphical login, I notice these odd packet messages showing up on
>the console. Usually some variation of (my ip X'd out):
>
>IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:da:c3:64:10:00:06:2a:ce:18:54:08:00 SRC=217.19.74.159
>DST=XX.XXX.XXX.XX LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=101 ID=12625 PROTO=UDP
>SPT=1026 DPT=137 LEN=58
>
>I can log in fine, they're just ugly and annoyingly breaking up my command
>line when I'm typing.
>I know it's a kernel message, it is being written to /var/log/messages also,
>and
>#kern.*	/dev/console
>is commented out in /etc/syslog.conf. What am I missing that I need to set
>to turn those off ?
>
>- SL
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