From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 08:10:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA18665 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 08:10:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA18658 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 08:10:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from atf3r@cs.virginia.edu) Received: from ares.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa26982; 10 Feb 98 11:09 EST Received: from mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (mamba-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.18]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA16393; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:09:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (atf3r@localhost) by mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA11600; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:09:17 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU: atf3r owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:09:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Andy Pendry cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stop freeBSD verbosity In-Reply-To: <34E06F80.1CB7@trinity.edin.sch.uk> 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 On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Andy Pendry wrote: > I have a free BSD server running sendmail etc... > > Can anyone tell me how to stop sendmail and popper and other daemons > reporting to the screen whenever someone sends mail. > > I have been trying to solve this problem for ages, and I can't locate > the correct config file to change. Take alook at /etc/syslog.conf. This file tells the system what to do with various messages. In the case of important ones, they are not only logged but written to the console. It should be fairly obvious what to change. cheers, Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message