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syslog(1) General Commands Manual syslog(1) NAME syslog - enables and disables printing to the console device, /dev/con- sole, by the syslogd daemon. SYNOPSIS syslog [console_on | console_off ] The arguments to this command are as follows: console_on - Starts printing to the console by the syslogd daemon console_off - Stops printing to the console by the syslogd daemon. DESCRIPTION Under certain circumstances you may need to control the volume of in- formation messages displayed on the console device. The syslog command enables you to control the syslogd daemon's capability to print mes- sages to the console device. Starting the syslogd daemon with the -s flag has the same effect as us- ing the following command: syslog console_off The information is still logged in a log file, providing that logging is enabled on your system. RELATED INFORMATION Commands: /usr/sbin/syslogd Functions: syslog(3) Files: /etc/sys- log.conf delim off syslog(1)