Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:44:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read <dread@texas.net> To: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: qpopper anoyances Message-ID: <XFMail.010614154431.dread@texas.net> In-Reply-To: <5c823b5cb8fe.5cb8fe5c823b@mbox.com.au>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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