Subject: Re: Kernel Messages Using CDR/CD-ROM
To: Daniel Bolgheroni <dab__@uol.com.br>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/04/2003 00:05:15
In message <20030204015343.GA364@uol.com.br>, Daniel Bolgheroni writes:
>On 0, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
>
>> This is harmless.
>> The cd driver is now trying to get a partition table from the CD, and
>> of course it can't get one, especially when the CD is blank. These errors
>> are because the driver tries to read a blank CD.
>
>I'm trying to eliminate these messages from appearing in console, so I comment
>ed this line in syslog.conf:
>
>#*.err;kern.*;auth.notice;authpriv.none;mail.crit /dev/console
>
>No effect.
>
And you lose other important messages...
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