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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Changing pop logging
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 01:35:45 GMT
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mitch4@netcom.com (mitch goldstrom) wrote:
>
>I am trying to set up popper so that it doesn't report connections to the
>/var/log/messages file.  I added the -t option to the inetd.conf file and
>restarted the machine, but the messages still come to the messages file.
>
>Is there any way to specify another file for the "Servicing Requests"
>and "Ending Request" messages?

Edit /etc/syslogd.conf.   See the manpages for syslogd.conf and syslogd.