From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 27 15:40:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15224 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:40:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15197 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:40:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-71.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.71]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id RAA12389; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:40:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA18433; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:40:36 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199803272340.RAA18433@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: markc@Relationships.com (Mark Castillo), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: qpopper messages in syslog In-reply-to: Message from "Paul T. Root" of "Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:58:48 CST." <199803271858.MAA26238@horton.iaces.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:40:35 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Paul T. Root" writes: > In a previous message, Mark Castillo said: > > I keep getting this in my /var/log/messages file: > > > > Mar 27 10:35:28 friends popper[17666]: (v2.4b2) Unable to get canonical > > name of client, err = 60 > > > > What does thie mean and how do I get it to shut up? > > popper wants to know the name of the machine that's popping > into it. Put the reverse lookup into your dns for your > clients. Or you could grep the popper sources for "Unable to get canonical" and comment the line out, as I've done in several cases. (Some of us have to put up with network managers who refuse to enter all their IP addresses into DNS.) To do this with the ports system: # cd /usr/ports/mail/popper # make clean # make patch # cd work/qpop* # grep "Unable to get canonical" *.c pop_init.c: "(v%s) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = %d", Edit it to look something like this: if (ch == NULL){ #ifdef NOISEY_CANONICAL pop_log(p,POP_PRIORITY, "(v%s) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = %d", VERSION, errno); #endif p->client = p->ipaddr; } Then "cd ../.." # make install Others have suggested changing the config for syslogd to drop the message. That would be the preferred solution but other than point you to syslog_conf(5) I don't know the specifics. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message