First, I commented out these lines in /etc/syslog.conf, which
I had added as per Lawson's advice:
local2.=info /var/log/ppp
daemon.=info rks
Then I went ahead and actually deleted them, but no joy.
Hmm, this is becoming quite a mystery.
As per Richard's advice, I changed an option in /etc/profile from
'biff y' to 'biff n' although I was a bit puzzled why that might be
relevant, still no joy.
What I see, again on all of the consoles, is the first five lines
of each message fetchmail is retrieving, whether or not I use
fetchmail's -v option, apparently as it is happening.
here's an example:
fundiego:~#
New mail for rks@fundiego has arrived:
----
From: Richard Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trial3
111111111111111111111
22222222222
33333333333
444444444444
55555555555
...more...
What I haven't done is re-booted the computer, or anything else
which may be required to 'reset' anything; it is my understanding
that that shouldn't be necessary.
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000812 09:23]:
>
>
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Richard Spencer wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > So I've got slackware 7 up and running. I've built a new kernel,
> > installed the latest mutt, and I've got fetchmail collecting
> > messages from my ISP, and I'm surfing the Internet with lynx and
> > netscape :-) I'm sure as I make the transition from
> > redhat to slackware I'll have more questions. But first things first.
> >
> > When I retrieve e-mail, I see portions of each message on
> > the console, and hear beeps. Moreover, this occurs on
> > every console. For example, if I have mutt open at alt-F3, and then
> > alt-F4 and fetchmail, and then alt-F3 back into mutt, I see the
> > same messed up screen with the email message-parts, as I saw on alt-F4
> > plus mutts screen is totally disfigured.
> >
> > If, on the other hand, I try this with X running in an open xterm, I
> > get only the (annoying) beeps.
> >
> > Does anyone know what I might do to fix this?
> >
> If the message-parts look sort of like this,
>
> fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 1
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK
> fetchmail: POP3< Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 16:35:07 +0200
> fetchmail: POP3< From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> fetchmail: POP3< To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> fetchmail: POP3< Subject: Shell script question
> fetchmail: POP3<
> fetchmail: POP3< Hi out there!
> fetchmail: POP3< .
>
> That is the -v or --verbose option of fetchmail. It normally goes to
> stderr (or maybe stdout) - the console fetchmail is run from, unless you
> also have --syslog (or syslog in .fetchmailrc), and -
>
> Did I help you get messages from pppd on the console by having you put
> some lines in /etc/syslog.conf? It sounds like you are directing some
> syslog traffic to your login name or possibly to *. If you don't need
> the pppd/chat messages any more, you can rip those lines out of
> syslog.conf, or make them more specific so they don't catch fetchmail
> traffic. changing *.=info to daemon.=info would help, or of course you
> could get rid of --verbose and --syslog in the fetchmail command.
>
> Lawson
>
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