[KLUG Members] Noise in /var/log/secure is gone!!!

[Bob Kanaley]

> Date: Tue,  5 Mar 2002 15:17:11 -0500
> From: adam@morrison-ind.com
> >Now, each time a windows client logs in to the mailserver I get:
> >an xinetd START: pop3 from 127.0.0.1 entry, in my secure logfile,
>
> Ah, yes.  I hate these,  they are pointless in mass (possibly hundreds a
> minute).  Go into /etc/xinetd.conf/ipop3d and change
> "log_on_success
> += SOMETHING HERE" to
> "log_on_success          =" and logging of successful POP connections will
stop.
>  I like to leave logging of unseccesful connections on.  Same applies to
other
> services provided by xinetd.
>

Thank you for the tip, the noise in /var/log/secure is gone!!!

Bob Kanaley
IS Manager
Agdia, Inc.