On November 19, 2003 09:11 pm, Pete Nesbitt wrote: .... > > > > So how can we just turn ipop logging off? It uses the mail syslog > > facility and I don't want to turn all of the mail logging off, just the > > ipop connections. There are currently 3 entries per connection - the > > pop3 service connection, the user login, and the user logout. Since my > > own pop connections are totally within my firewall and restricted to my > > wife's machine, I don't really need to see them. I've experimented with > > the xinetd logging without luck, and short of patching the pop server to > > not log at all or to a different facility I'm not sure where else too > > look. > > > > Thanks, > > .../Ed > > Ed, > Have a look in xinetd.d in the pop3 file (I don't have a mail server here, > so I may be off on the file name). You can set a number if log related > peramiters according to the man. > > Here are what you may want to look at: > log_type -this can log to a file (not via syslog) that you can control > like fs quotas. > log_on_success -you can set the type of info to log (reduce clutter) > log_on_failure -as above > > If you really want to separate your inside pop logs and the outside pop > logs, you could create a separate pop daemon (say pop_lan) run it on a > different port and let it log via syslog. You may need to edit the > /etc/services file as well (i know on Solaris if the service is not in the > services file inetd won't start it.) > > Does that help? I suppose /dev/null may be your file of choice for those entries :-) -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
