From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 13:44:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mw1.texas.net (mw1.texas.net [206.127.30.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3307937B41F for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:44:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dread@texas.net) Received: from localhost.texas.net (tcnet05-55.austin.texas.net [209.99.42.55]) by mw1.texas.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5EKhKI17334; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:43:21 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5c823b5cb8fe.5cb8fe5c823b@mbox.com.au> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:44:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read To: BSD Freak Subject: RE: qpopper anoyances Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12-Jun-01 BSD Freak wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We use qpopper on a pretty busy POP3 / SMTP server and find it almost > impossible to do anything from the console or an SSH session (logged in > as root) because qpopper continuously outputs the following messages > onto the terminal: > > Jun 12 21:54:02 mail qpopper[39820]: Stats: mb004k 0 0 0 0 > 203.44.156.149 xxx.xxx.156.149 > I know this has to do with one of the syslog options. Any ideas would > be much apreciated. > > A copy of my /etc/syslog.conf follows: > ># $FreeBSD: src/etc/syslog.conf,v 1.13 2000/02/08 21:57:28 rwatson Exp $ ># ># Spaces are NOT valid field separators in this file. ># Consult the syslog.conf(5) manpage. > *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console > *.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages > security.* /var/log/security > mail.info /var/log/maillog > lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs > cron.* /var/log/cron > *.err root > *.notice;news.err root ^^^^^^^^ This is why. qpopper defaults to log at local0.notice, 'tis stupid IMO; there's nothing worth noticing about somebody fetching their mail. Should be *.info or better yet mail.* Regards, -- Don Read dread@texas.net -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message