Re: [cobalt-users] [Mips]HELP! Can't turn off IPX & Appletalk Logging

[Mike Vanecek <nospam99@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:01:51 -0800, "James Hoaggs" <james_hoaggs@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

:>> # alias net-pf-4 ipx
:>> alias net-pf-4 off
:>> # alias net-pf-5 appletalk
:>> alias net-pf-5 off
:>Yes, we have the same thing in /etc/conf.modules, re-booted, restarted
:>syslog, and still no go. We have Qube2-en-OSUpdate Rel. 3.0. 

Sounds about the same as mine:

All-Kernel_mips Release 1.0 
Cobalt OS Release 4.0 
OpenSSH Server Release 2.1.1p2 
Qube2-All-Security Release 3.0.1-6453 
Qube2-All-Security Release 3.0.1-6579 
Qube2-All-Security Release 3.0.1-6682 
Qube2-All-Security Release 3.0.2-6750 
Qube2-All-System Release 3.0.1-6541 
Qube2-All-System Release 3.0.2-6449 
Qube2-en-OSUpdate Release 3.0 
Qube2E-Infoplace Release 2.1 



:>The IPX/Appletalk
:>messages are gone though we still get these horrid messages:
:>Nov 11 13:15:04 ns2 modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
:>Nov 11 13:15:04 ns2 last messge repeated 21 times
:>Nov 11 13:15:04 ns2 modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
:>Nov 11 13:15:04 ns2 modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
:>Nov 11 13:15:04 ns2 modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
:>Nov 11 13:15:04 ns2 last messge repeated 21 times

Look through man modprobe and see if anything rings a bell.

:>The only thing in the archives that I haven't tried was changing the
:>syslog script /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog to start with "syslogd -m 0" which
:>sets the mark timer to 0 (zero) and disables it. Did you do that?

I have

  start)
        echo -n "Starting system loggers: "
        daemon syslogd -m 0
        daemon klogd
        echo
        touch /var/lock/subsys/syslog

As I remember, it only suppresses the ---MARK --- time stamp.

:> Our
:>script doesn't have it though I don't just want to suppress the log from
:>displaying messages, I want the Acitve Monitor to stop trying to load
:>or use ipx/appletalk, like removing the modules all together.
:>Thx,

The key has to be in modprobe since that is what is generating the error
messages. 

Permissions OK?

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1115 Aug 20 15:38 conf.modules

Did you edit the conf.modules with a word wrap editor and now modprobe is
zapping at reading the alias file? If you put conf.modules back to the
original state do the modprobe messages stop?