Broadcasting Annoyances

[Michael Tiemann]

Perhaps you want to be using a terminal window, not a console, for
command-line activities.  I know the distinction may come as a surprise,
but terminals will give you the peace you seek.  I never open console
windows (well, almost never).

M

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 09:05, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Am I the only person who's sick and tired of all manner of error
> messages that are being splattered across all open console logins just
> because some programmer wants to do that?
> 
> Example: Is it really necessary for ordinary users to get the following
> from cdparanoia:
> 
> cdparanoia: Using deprecated /dev/sg mechanism instead of SG_IO on the actual device will also suggest you mig
> 
> 
> As if the ordinary user (who, in my instance didn't even launch the
> process) could do anything about such a condition. Heck, I'd warrant
> most users wouldn't even understand it. Yet, in this example, this
> messages comes up every minute or so.
> 
> I could come up with other examples, but I think my point is
> sufficiently illustrated.
> 
> Clearly such messages should go to logs. But, isn't this broadcast
> abuse? I think so and dearly wish we had a mechanism to block such
> abuse.
> 
> 				Janina
>