On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 21:09:14 -0500, Default User wrote: > Very strange. > > I installed Firestarter on Debian Stable (i386). It is picking up the > routine periodic dhcp send events from my router, and sending them to to > the tty consoles, where they overwrite part of the screen. These are > the same as what shows up in the Firestarter "events" screen. > > Note: this does not occur on the X terminals (i.e., xterm), so it was > not noticed until I did CTRL-ALT-F1 (or CTRL-ALT-F2, etc). > > I uninstalled Firestarter, and the behavior stopped. I reinstalled > Firestarter, and it started again. > > This makes it almost impossible to use the tty consoles. Is there a way > to stop Firestarter from writing to the tty consoles uninvited?
You can either tell firestarter not to log these events anymore (probably a bad idea) or you can tell klogd to stop echoing low-level messages on the ttys. For the latter approach see for example here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/07/msg00068.html If you are worried about missing messages after you change the setting then you can install the package "logcheck". It comes with a friendly daemon which will send you an email notification whenever something unusual is logged. -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
