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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 17:26:38 +0100
From: Simon Williams <simon@...dns-yet.org.uk>
To: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
Cc: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com,
Patrick Volkerding <volkerdi@...ckware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] popa3d syslog facility (fwd)
* On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 04:24:39PM BST, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> Camiel, Patrick, Simon, all:
>
> I am not sure if my opinion is wanted
I certainly want to hear/see it.
> (this is really a distribution thing),
I gathered as much, which was why I sent it to Pat, but wondered if
LOG_MAIL was a better default.
> 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,
Thanks for clearing that up.
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