On November 20, 2003 08:13 pm, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 06:27:40PM -0800, Pete Nesbitt wrote: > > On November 20, 2003 02:36 pm, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 06:30:02AM -0800, Pete Nesbitt wrote: > > > > On November 19, 2003 09:11 pm, Pete Nesbitt wrote: > > > > .... > > > > so syslog.conf may be causing probs. Mine has a (default) line in it: > > # Log all the mail messages in one place. > > mail.* /var/log/maillog > > > > if you changed that to: > > mail.crit it should only log messages of critical or higher, so regular > > pop's would (should:) not get logged. > > or I suppose you could change the target file there as well. > > > > Just to clearify though, you don't want to log any mail messages? > > I want to log all the mail messages but not the pop3 service > connections. I still want all the sendmail messages logged. > > > Can you confirm you tried in pop3: > > log_type = FILE /tmp/mail (or whatever file) > > > > This should not be that tough should it. > > I did that. It created the file but continued writing to maillog > anyway. You're right - it shouldn't be that tough, but it sure seems to > be. It's quite likely that I can not solve this without modifying the > ipop server to change where it logs to. All I can see is to try setting syslog.conf to either mail.notice or mail.warning worth a shot, maybe one of them will drop the connection info and leave the rest. -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
