From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 23 7:54: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jedi.sprawlnet.com (jedi.sprawlnet.com [208.224.169.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EEE914BD7 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 07:53:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikes@jedi.sprawlnet.com) Received: by jedi.sprawlnet.com (Postfix, from userid 0) id 4466E4ECC; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 05:51:30 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Steinfeld To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: error messages on console annoying Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 05:43:42 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99112305513000.02017@jedi> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sorry if i sent this to the wrong list but it was a stable box that it was happening on. and i edited syslog.conf to sent the message elsewhere. thanks. On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message