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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!insync!news.hal-pc.org!usenet 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 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4hni6v$805@news.hal-pc.org> References: <4hgv25$5s5@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: black.gensys.com X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In-Reply-To: <4hgv25$5s5@gol2.gol.com> 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> PGP Public Key available at http://gensys.com or on the key servers