[Techtalk] Hiding/redirecting console messages

[Dana Sibera]

I have a mac Quadra 605 running debian - just ran through a bunch of 
upgrades to Woody, but still running the 2.2.19 kernel for now.

There's a curiosity in the 68k kernel (seems to be only mac68ks, but I 
could be wrong) where with the Sonic-powered ethernet cards, there's the 
occasional message put to console that says "Unexpected IRQ 3 on device 
00000000" - it could be 30 seconds or several minutes between 
occurences, though it'd always appear about 3-5 times on booting. This 
has never been a problem - it seems to be just One Of Those Things I get 
from running a 68k mac with sonic ethernet & linux, and it -used- to 
only occur when the machine was booting, then stop after a console login 
prompt appeared.

Now the message is throwing itself around the console, even after boot. 
Once again it's all -working- fine, and has been (and is still) serving 
danamania.com fine for 3 months now, but it's just horrifically 
annoying!. Are there options anywhere to redirect messages like this one 
to a logfile, and keep them off the console?. Perhaps even throw that 
particular one away :P.

I've peeked into /etc/syslog.conf and found nothing turned on there 
directing messages to console or ttys. The message does get directed to 
/var/log/syslog and /var/log/kern.log.

thanks in advance,
dana
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