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From: jhupp@black.gensys.com (Jeff Hupp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why all these messages?
Date: 7 Mar 1996 20:50:39 GMT
Organization: Houston Area League of PC Users
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To: Doug Lerner <doug@inJapan.net>

In article <4hgv25$5s5@gol2.gol.com>,
	Doug Lerner <doug@inJapan.net> writes:
>Over the last few days my FreeBSD machine has been sending system 
>messages all the time to my X window console. Everytime somebody does 
>something, like check mail, messages like:
>

	Check your /etc/syslog.conf file (and read the related man page)


>......service request from...
>......Ending request from....
>....disconnect broken pipe...
>.....unable to get canonical name of client...
>
>(2) Are any of those "error sounding" messages cause for concern?
>
	The first two are not errors, the third and fourth may be 
problems, I can't tell from what little is here and they likely are not 
problems anyway.

-- 
X, windows done right...
Jeff Hupp <Jhupp@gensys.com> <http://gensys.com>
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