dmesg output on all ttys

[Adramelech9]

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whenever i try to do anything in one of the virtual terminals dmesg cuts in and outputs some funny nonsense about my Internet connection, if i want to know about my internet connection i would use the command. Is there anyway that i could disable it from printing to the ttys?

I also have another problem regarding an external laptop HDD. I swapped out my windows drive from my laptop to an external USB case, but my Dapper system cannot read or write to it! So i can't even mount it. when i put it back into the laptop it is recognized, is this some sort of usb error? i don't have this problem with my other external i took from my tower.

If anyone could give any thoughts about this i would be much obliged. Thanks

[cyberinstru]

# echo "4 4 1 4" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk

HTH

[hazel]

Could we have an expansion on that please? It looks interesting. I can see that you're passing arguments to the kernel's print-out function but what does "4 4 1 4" actually represent?

[rcgreen]

I found something.

/proc/sys/kernel/printk
The four values in this file are console_loglevel, default_mes-
sage_loglevel, minimum_console_level and default_con-
sole_loglevel. These values influence printk() behavior when
printing or logging error messages. See syslog(2) for more info
on the different loglevels. Messages with a higher priority
than console_loglevel will be printed to the console. Messages
without an explicit priority will be printed with priority
default_message_level. minimum_console_loglevel is the minimum
(highest) value to which console_loglevel can be set.
default_console_loglevel is the default value for con-
sole_loglevel.

proc(5)

[Adramelech9]

I did some searching around after that "# echo "4 4 1 4" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk"
and found that in my /etc/sysctl.conf a line similar is there, see:

# Uncomment the following to stop low level messages to console
kernel/printk = 4 4 1 7

and with that helpful post by rcgreen it makes sense to change my 7 to a 4 but when i checked the actual file it states:

[kernel]$ cat printk
6 4 1 7

So i'm thinking that something must have overwritten the value from my config file