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From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: POP messages - Flooding console VTY's
Date: 7 Dec 1995 06:44:27 GMT
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In article <30C5CC89.167EB0E7@otcinc.com>, bix@otcinc.com says...
>
>I just set up the popper program and now my console is flooded with
>messages. Every client service request generates at least a start and end
>service message. How can I get these into a log file?

  This is done by syslog.  You need to remove some stuff from /etc/syslog.conf 
that is logging stuff to /dev/console.

Tom