From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 17 00:05:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A209616A419 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:05:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (vjofn-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::5e5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62A9F13C4A5 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:05:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (cpe-68-175-8-11.hvc.res.rr.com [68.175.8.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l9H05H4X018732 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:05:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (localhost.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [127.0.0.1]) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9H05BPY092269 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:05:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: (from tbohml@localhost) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) id l9H05BYR092267 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:05:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tbohml) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" Message-Id: <200710170005.l9H05BYR092267@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:05:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: syslog marking sendmail output as "kernel:" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:05:18 -0000 Hi, I'm seeing in the logs : Oct 16 00:00:25 valhalla sm-mta[69206]: l9G40Kf5069206: SYSERR(root): collect: I /O error on connection from bd0614db.virtua.com.br, from= Oct 16 00:00:25 valhalla kernel: Oct 16 00:00:25 valhalla sm-mta[69206]: l9G40Kf 5069206: SYSERR(root): collect: I/O error on connection from bd0614db.virtua.com .br, from= I understand there isn't a problem with the first one, but then its logging the second as a "kernel:" entry. My syslog.conf is : *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console *.emerg * *.debug /var/log/spool Is there a way to stop that second entry? It keeps tripping my syslog monitoring program. Thanks, Tuc