Re: [cobalt-users] How to stop PROFTP logging messages from localhost

[David Lucas <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:04 PM 9/22/2001, you wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> How can I stop PROFTP on my RaQ4 to logging requests from localhost in the
> file
> /var/log/messages
>
> I am getting this log every 15 minutes and would like to get rid of these:
>
> Sep 22 12:45:00 ns1 proftpd[4384]: (localhost[127.0.0.1]) - FTP session
> opened.
> Sep 22 12:45:00 ns1 proftpd[4384]: (localhost[127.0.0.1]) - FTP session
> closed.
> Sep 22 13:00:00 ns1 proftpd[5043]: (localhost[127.0.0.1]) - FTP session
> opened.
> Sep 22 13:00:00 ns1 proftpd[5043]: (localhost[127.0.0.1]) - FTP session
> closed.
> Sep 22 13:15:01 ns1 proftpd[5816]: (localhost[127.0.0.1]) - FTP session
> opened.
> Sep 22 13:15:01 ns1 proftpd[5816]: (localhost[127.0.0.1]) - FTP session
> closed.
> Sep 22 13:30:00 ns1 proftpd[6505]: (localhost[127.0.0.1]) - FTP session
> opened.
> Sep 22 13:30:00 ns1 proftpd[6505]: (localhost[127.0.0.1]) - FTP session
> closed.
>
> I checked cron files, there is nothing. I also checked /etc/syslog.conf file
> but I think I am missing something.
>
> Is there anybody who can help me to work out this issue?
>
> Thanks a lot!


Find you checklog.ignore file and add something to stop the message.  The 
system checks every 15 minutes to see if it is working.  If you don't use 
ftp, turn it off.  If you do you use it and don't want to see the message 
from checklog, add a statement to you checklog.ignore file.  I have a 
couple of ftp entires, one will stop it, I am not sure which one does it.

in.proftpd*: connect from localhost
in.proftpd.*: connect from 127.0.0.1
proftpd.*: www.domain.com(localhost*)

Think it was one of the first two that stopped if from sending me emails