Hi all. 0230 am, and I decide to move our mx server's qmail smtpd
invocation from inetd to tcpserver. Wise choice eh? Seems to be
performance jump thus far (judging from the few msgs I have sent thru it).
All seems well tho I can't seem to figure out why things are getting logged
to my terminal rather than to a log file somewhere.
>From the qmail FAQ (5.1):
<quote>
By default, tcpserver allows at most 40 simultaneous qmail-smtpd
processes. To raise this limit to 400, use tcpserver -c 400. To keep
track of who's connecting and for how long, run (on two lines)
tcpserver -v -u 7770 -g 2108 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \
2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &
</quote>
Um ok, the uid and gid are diff on my box :> So's the qmail path but other
than that it's a cut/paste and msgs are getting blurted out to the terminal.
I suspect that it's simply really late, my brain is no longer functioning,
and there's something funky with my /etc/syslog.conf; any thoughts wopuld be
appreciated.
To be honest I have no idea what facility 3 is (second arg to splogger); at
any sane hour of the day I probably would
PS -- it's a SuSE 6.2 box but not necessarily stock :>
qmail v1.03
tcpserver and company, v0.84
Thanks
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