From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 0:30:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36EEE37B740 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:30:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 57451 invoked by uid 100); 20 Mar 2001 08:30:35 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15031.5419.482618.192130@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:30:35 -0600 To: jef moskot Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qpopper is very noisy In-Reply-To: <26867471@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jef moskot types: > I'm using qpopper right now and it's doing fine, but it spits out a line > every time it's accessed when I'm logged into the console as root, which > gets annoying pretty quickly. > > Is it possible to turn this behavior off, while still allowing these > messages to be reported normally in the log file? Well, the best way is to not log in as root. Failing that, you can use syslog.conf to control where the messages from syslogd go. The man pages provide some details on this. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message