From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 23 6:57:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE14514BF4; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 06:57:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA04628; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:56:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA19223; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:56:38 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991123095511.01d03100@staff.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@staff.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 09:55:11 -0500 To: mike@sprawlnet.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: error messages on console annoying Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199911230854.IAA08931@www.freebsdbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is more of a topic for questions. I am cc'ing it there, please follow up on that list. As to your question, man syslog.conf specifically, *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console vs *.err;local0.none;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console At 08:54 AM 11/23/99 GMT, 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. > >thanks, >mike > >please send a copy of your reply to mike@sprawlnet.com > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message