How to prevent service/system output while working in interactive shell.

[alex]

Hello,
is there any way to prevent the system from printing to vt?
It's quite annoying when I edit files in vi or ed and the system suddenly tells me that a USB device has disconnected, overwriting the interactive shell.
The same goes for services like samba_service.
Can anyone tell me how to prevent this from happening? I don't have much experience with freebsd.

Thanks!

 

[SirDice]

Solved - Disruptive messages from syslogd(8) and ntpd(8) in conlose

Hi everyone. I get warnings from syslogd and ntpd all the time, when I'm in virtual terminal and it's very disruptive. How can I suppress all messages from all daemons from being displayed? Thanks.

forums.freebsd.org

 

[alex]

Solved - Disruptive messages from syslogd(8) and ntpd(8) in conlose

Hi everyone. I get warnings from syslogd and ntpd all the time, when I'm in virtual terminal and it's very disruptive. How can I suppress all messages from all daemons from being displayed? Thanks.

forums.freebsd.org

Thanks that thread was helpfull.

 

[SirDice]

Additionally, some messages can be prevented by disabling this line in /etc/syslog.conf:

*.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit                /dev/console

Certain (kernel) debug messages however are always printed on the console, regardless of this syslog.conf(5) line.

 

[_martin]

It's worth mentioning that, at least by default, if you're logged on the console and even when using vi editor while that happened you can clear it by pressing ctrl+l.