From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 18:40:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ibis.math.miami.edu (ibis.math.miami.edu [192.70.171.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0018437B728 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:40:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jef@math.miami.edu) Received: from hurricane.math.miami.edu (hurricane.math.miami.edu [129.171.34.4]) by ibis.math.miami.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA53301; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:41:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jef@math.miami.edu) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:40:37 -0500 (EST) From: jef moskot To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qpopper is very noisy In-Reply-To: <15031.5419.482618.192130@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Meyer wrote: > jef moskot types: > > I'm using qpopper right now and it's doing fine, but it spits out a line > > every time it's accessed when I'm logged into the console as root, which > > gets annoying pretty quickly. > > > > Is it possible to turn this behavior off, while still allowing these > > messages to be reported normally in the log file? > > Well, the best way is to not log in as root. At first I thought you were being a smartass, then I turned my brain on realized that that's a pretty good workaround. Thanks! > Failing that, you can use syslog.conf to control where the messages > from syslogd go. The man pages provide some details on this. I messed around with this originally, even found precisely what I wanted to do on a web page somewhere, made the change and...nothing happened. Sorry, I can't remember the details of that attempt, but I'll try again. At any rate, do you think it would be a good idea to contact the author of the port, to turn this behavior off by default? Is there any sensible reason to spam the root operator with non-critical messages? Jeffrey Moskot System Administrator jef@math.miami.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message