how to stop broadcast messages to all users?

[kdea]

One of the power supplies on our ES40 failed, and a replacement has been ordered. In the meantime, the machine insists on broadcasting it to me and all the users?

Broadcast Message from root@xxx.xxx.com (???) at 12:17 ...

Redundant Power Supply has failed.

What do I use to control it to broadcast to users and/or root?

Thanks!

[Ivan Ferreira]

Check your /etc/syslog.conf. This like may cause the problem:

*.emerg *

Comment out that line and send the HUP signal to the syslogd daemon.

If you want to send it only to root, configure like this:

*.emerg root

The "mesg n" command won't prevent the messages from appearing.

[kdea]

Thanks! I figured it was in the syslog.conf. I didn't know the syntax.

[kdea]

Hmmmm.... actually, no, the messages are still happening. Any other ideas?

[kdea]

The bottom of my /etc/syslog.conf looks like this:

#kern.debug /var/adm/messages
#kern.debug /dev/console
#*.emerg root

I restarted the syslogd daemon, and the broadcast messages (and beep) still happens.

walld is commented out in my /etc/inetd.conf file.

Any ideas?

[prathesh]

can you remove the hash for the *.emer root and then try again

[Bill Coulter]

This error message is sent by the envmond daemon. The configuration utility for this is envconfig.

In the same situation, I entered the following command in order to stop the e-mails:

envconfig stop

This also works:

/sbin/init.d/envmon stop

Still haven't figured out how to direct e-mail only to the root account...

bc