[tpop3d-discuss] logging to syslog error

[Marcin Sochacki]

In tpop3d (8) I've found:

       tpop3d logs most diagnostics via syslog(3), using facility
       mail.

Unfortunately it's not 100% correct.
Some messages are logged with auth.info facility, which made my tpop3d
logs spread across various files.

With 'syslogd -d' one can see:
logmsg: auth.info<38>, flags 2, from debian, msg Oct 18 12:13:29 tpop3d[18723]:
fork_child: [3]peter(10.0.0.248): successfully authenticated with pam
 
logmsg: auth.info<38>, flags 2, from debian, msg Oct 18 11:53:50 tpop3d[17783]:
authcontext_delete: finished session for `aga' with pam

My temporary solution is:

******
/etc/syslog.conf
******
*.*;mail.none;auth.!=info         /var/log/syslog
mail.*;auth.=info                 /var/log/mail.log

And for the wishlist, it would be nice to have an option to get
'compact' logs from tpop3d. Currently, one POP3 session creates about five
lines, which fills my disks quite quickly.

Regards,
Marcin