On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:04:20PM -0600, Len Conrad wrote:
we have
destination console { file("/var/log/messages" ); };
and still we have messages from a remote mail server's POP3D arriving at port 514 that get logged to console. Some of these messages we have written to special thats is tailed for pop-before-smtp access control in postfix, and they get routed and filtered ok, but some we that arrive that we don't care about nor filter for are showing up on the console.
what's the trick to a completely quiet console?
My syslog-ng conf file started life as the one that comes with the debian syslog-ng package. It has these console-related destination lines: # The root's console. # destination console { usertty("root"); }; # Virtual console. # destination console_all { file("/dev/tty8"); }; # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the nsole' utility. To use it, # you must invoke nsole' with the -file' option: # # $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] # destination xconsole { pipe("/dev/xconsole"); }; Maybe you have some console lines you don't see? -- Nate "C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language." - Stefan Van Baelen.