[nylug-talk] dhcp messages flooding console

[Sunny Dubey]

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:28, matt black wrote:
> My console is being flooded with dhcp messages which I would really like
> turn off.
>
> dmesg -n 1 doesn't work, (nor does echoing directly into
> /proc/sys/kernel/printk) and setlogcons [other tty] gives me a bad file
> descriptor.
>
> can't even read my syslog.conf because it just gets scrolled off the screen
> by all the dhcp noise.
>

ifdown ethN should kill the DHCP client (on a properly configured system.)  Or 
just killall dhclient && killall dhcpcd && killall pump should eventually 
nail one of 'em.

Or just boot into single mode before the networking gets brought up.
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Sunny Dubey

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