Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:57:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: Don Read <dread@texas.net> Cc: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: qpopper anoyances Message-ID: <20010614135718.M83430-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010614154431.dread@texas.net>
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Also make sure you don't have the "-s" option (or it's equivalent in the
config file) enabled...
from the man page:
-s Turns on statistics logging using syslog(8) or
trace-file. At the end of each popper session, the
following information is logged: username, number
of messages deleted, number of bytes deleted, num-
ber of message left on server, number of bytes left
on server.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Don Read wrote:
>
> 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
>
> <snip>
>
> > 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.
>
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