Am 01 Sep 2000 schrieb Jürgen Bloß <Juergen.Bloss@basys-gmbh.de>:
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 for the information!!! Anyway, it doesn't solve my problem. The first of these two messages is the one that I want to get rid of! The second doesn't concern me (since I've already deactivated it).
So, my question now is modified to: How do I stop *tcpd* from logging when it is used to start popper? Is there a way, or do I have to remove it from /etc/inetd.conf for POP3?
try: man 5 hosts_options /logging I have never tried this options, but it looks like you can direct the message to some other log facility. It may depend on your tcpd compile-time options if this works, too (see beginning of the man page). CU -- Stefan Huelswitt | http://home.pages.de/~nathan huels@iname.com | IRC: nathan @ #nrw.de