popa3d-users - Re: [PATCH] popa3d syslog facility (fwd)

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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:24:39 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Simon Williams <simon@...dns-yet.org.uk>,
	Patrick Volkerding <volkerdi@...ckware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] popa3d syslog facility (fwd)

Camiel, Patrick, Simon, all:

I am not sure if my opinion is wanted (this is really a distribution
thing), but it is that having POP3 servers log as LOG_MAIL is wrong.
It may match a man page, but it's impractical.  Maybe it's the man
page that needs to be corrected (I'll probably do so for Owl).

The reason popa3d defaults to LOG_DAEMON is because there's no
facility assigned to POP3 and using a local facility in a generic
(non-distribution-specific) package would be wrong.  Distributions may
feel free to allocate a facility for POP3 and configure popa3d to use
that.

Thanks,

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/sd