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List:       c-client
Subject:    Re: disable syslogging
From:       Andrew Mickish <mickish () wolf ! sneakerlabs ! com>
Date:       1999-06-01 17:49:41
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Yes, this is easily configurable with /etc/syslog.conf.

IMAP daemon has calls to the library function syslog() scattered
throughout the code.  Each invocation of syslog() has an associated
priority -- some are informational, some are authentication notices,
some are errors, etc.  All of them are from a 'mail' service.
You can tell syslogd to log these messages to a specific log file,
or ignore them completely.

The following excerpt from an /etc/syslog.conf file tells syslogd to
not log any mail messages to /var/log/messages, and to log *all* mail
messages to /var/log/maillog.

        # Write daemon logs (like named) to a separate file
        daemon.info                                             /var/log/named.log

        # Log everything (except auth, mail, and daemon) of level info or higher.
        # Don't log *any* authentication messages because that's handled later
        # Don't log daemon.info because that's handled in an earlier rule
        # Don't log mail.info because that's handled in a later rule
        *.info;daemon.!=info;mail.!=info;authpriv.!*;security.!=info  /var/log/messages
        
        # The authpriv file has restricted access.
        authpriv.*;security.*                                   /var/log/secure
        
        # Log all the mail messages in one place.
        mail.*                                                  /var/log/maillog


Remember:

  1) The destination files must exist before restarting syslog
     (syslog will not automatically create the log files, though
     it will append to them)

  2) You must restart syslog before the changes take effect, by
     looking at the result of 'ps aux' or 'ps -ef' and doing
     'kill -HUP <syslogPID>'

For more info, see 'man syslog', 'man syslogd', and 'man syslog.conf'.

--Andrew Mickish
  Software Engineer
  SneakerLabs, Inc.



"Scott J. Janz" wrote:
> 
> Is there anyway of disabling login/logout messages to the syslog in the UW
> server (4.5rev1) (irix os)?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -scott
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