Hi!

so how can I disable the popper logging of tcpd? Havent found something in "man tcpd". Maybe running popper in deamon mode is a good idea?

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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Roman Drahtmueller [mailto:draht@suse.de]
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 27. August 2000 08:50
> An: Jürgen Bloß
> Cc: suse-security@suse.com
> Betreff: Re: AW: [suse-security] Popper verbosity
>
>
> > Hello again!
> >
> > Indeed, the suggested solution does not work!
> > But there has to be a better way than rebuild the popper!
> > Problem is: I couldn't find the output line in the popper
> source. Could
> > it be that inetd is doing this log, before calling popper???
> > But I surely son't want to rebuild the inetd!
> >
> > Doesn't anybody else experience this problem that popper is
> cluttering
> > the /var/log/messages file?
> >
> > There *must* be a way to stop this logging-call. Perhaps by
> configuring
> > syslogd???
> >
> >     Jürgen
>
> To clear this up:
>
> There are possibly two lines per connection in your syslogs:
>
> Aug 27 08:36:32 para popper[10193]: connect from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1)
> Aug 27 08:37:01 para popper[10193]: Stats: shotdead 1 415 0 0
>
>
> The first line is from /usr/sbin/tcpd (the tcp wrapper) in
> /etc/inetd.conf. It's not the popper program's fault - in
> fact, it doesn't
> even know that tcpd wrote a log since it was started from him.
>
> The second line vanishes if you remove the "-s" from the
> popper line in
> /etc/inetd.conf. This works, you find the relevant code in
> pop_updt.c:86
> and pop_log.c.
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
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