From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 23 7: 0:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B5D1514E for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 07:00:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdf.lists@fxp.org) Received: by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix, from userid 1016) id DA70D9B36; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:00:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE259BA21; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:00:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:00:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: cdf.lists@pawn.primelocation.net To: Mike Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error messages on console annoying In-Reply-To: <199911230854.IAA08931@www.freebsdbox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Mike wrote: > hi all. > I am continually getting messages on my console whenever someone checks their > email. The error messages are this: > > Nov 22 20:15:53 www popper[8162]: @[2Cust85.tnt4.mia1.da.uu.net]: -ERR Too > few a > rguments for the auth command. > Nov 22 23:00:09 www popper[8298]: mike@[2Cust85.tnt4.mia1.da.uu.net]: -ERR > Unkno > wn command: "xsender". > > and I got this message today which was a first, so if anyone can enlightent me > to what it means and how to stop getting these messages from popper to broadcast on the console it would greatly be appreciated. > The messages are caused by generally caused by Netscape's mail client; see qpopper's FAQ for more information. The reason you get the messages on the console is due to the way syslog is logging messages (see the /dev/console line in /etc/syslog.conf). ----- Chris D. Faulhaber | All the true gurus I've met never System/Network Administrator, | claimed they were one, and always Reality Check Information, Inc. | pointed to someone better. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message