From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 13:58:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oddjob.adhesivemedia.com (oddjob.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD0537B403 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:58:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by oddjob.adhesivemedia.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5EKvt787393; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:57:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:57:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Don Read Cc: BSD Freak , Subject: RE: qpopper anoyances In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010614135718.M83430-100000@oddjob.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 > > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message