Re: Limiting frequency of POP logins

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On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 06:30:02AM -0800, Pete Nesbitt wrote:
> On November 19, 2003 09:11 pm, Pete Nesbitt wrote:
> ....
> > 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.)
> >
> I suppose /dev/null may be your file of choice for those entries :-)

Nope. I gave it a valid file name, restarted xinetd, and the file was
created.  It then happily continued logging to maillog and left my file
empty.  Darn it all!

        .../Ed

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