From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 22:34:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (dhcp.looksmart.com.au [202.53.47.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65ED737B401 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:34:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f5D5Xqf05237; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:33:52 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Message-Id: <200106130533.f5D5Xqf05237@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Mark Sergeant" To: BSD Freak , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qpopper anoyances X-Mailer: Pronto v2.2.5 On freebsd/mysql Date: 13 Jun 2001 00:33:50 EST Reply-To: "Mark Sergeant" In-Reply-To: <5c823b5cb8fe.5cb8fe5c823b@mbox.com.au> References: <5c823b5cb8fe.5cb8fe5c823b@mbox.com.au> 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 Log in as yourself and use sudo no annoying console messages. This is generally advised as really there is no need to login as root. Cheers, Mark On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:04:44 +1000, BSD Freak said: > 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 > Jun 12 21:54:57 mail qpopper[39821]: Stats: mb004k 0 0 0 0 > 203.44.156.149 xxx.xxx.156.149 > Jun 12 21:56:51 mail qpopper[39825]: Stats: mb004k 0 0 0 0 > 203.44.156.149 xxx.xxx.156.149 > Jun 12 21:57:10 mail qpopper[39826]: Stats: mb001g 0 0 0 0 > 203.44.156.154 xxx.xxx.156.154 > Jun 12 21:57:45 mail qpopper[39827]: Stats: mb004k 0 0 0 0 > 203.44.156.149 xxx.xxx.156.149 > Jun 12 21:59:13 mail qpopper[39828]: Stats: mb004k 0 0 0 0 > 203.44.156.149 xxx.xxx.156.149 > (I have masked the first part of the IP address) > > This problem is compounded when logged into the server via a low > bandwidth link. > > 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 > *.alert root > *.emerg * > # uncomment this to enable logging of all log messages > to /var/log/all.log > #*.* /var/log/all.log > # uncomment this to enable logging to a remote loghost named loghost > #*.* @loghost > # uncomment these if you're running inn > # news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit > # news.err /var/log/news/news.err > # > news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice > !startslip > *.* /var/log/slip.log > !ppp > *.* /var/log/ppp.log > > ---------------------------------------------- > Earn money with mBox > Visit http://www.mbox.com.au/referral_programs.html > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > -- Mark Sergeant Unix Systems Administrator Fortune follows... Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message