[tpop3d-discuss] Tpop 1.4.2 memory leak?: fork_child: fork: Not enough space

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:58:07AM -0800, Rich, WhidbeyNet NOC wrote:
> 
> On a different topic, one machine had a syslog of 80mb for only 15 hours
> worth of POP3 sessions. That's even after we modified Tpop to only log 3
> things for each session. We've now re-modified Tpop, so it now only logs
> errors, such as internal problems or authentication and connection
> failures.

How many sessions is that?

> A very welcome feature would be a compile or config option to
> "log-only-errors" for large sites. :) It'd also be nice if tpop3d didn't
> log errors to console when it's running as a daemon (with no debug or
> vebose) but that's not a big issue. 

Um. Surely you can simply say

    log-facility: local0

in tpop3d.conf, and

    local0.err      /var/log/tpop3d

in /etc/syslog.conf, and stop any other local0.* error
messages going anywhere?


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