Logs flooding on system console

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Kernel log messages appearing on the system console

  • Firewall log messages appearing on the system console

  • Unable to type username and password on the login screen as logs are flooding on the screen

  • Below error is seen in journal logs / messages:

action '*' treated as ':omusrmsg:*' - please use ':omusrmsg:*' syntax instead

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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