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Date:      Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:04:07 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Zero Sum <count@shalimar.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: firewall, fetch and ICQ?
Message-ID:  <20010121180407.C10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex>
In-Reply-To: <01012212433700.01296@shalimar.net.au>; from count@shalimar.net.au on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:43:37PM %2B1100
References:  <01012211261001.14467@shalimar.net.au> <20010121172202.A10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> <01012212433700.01296@shalimar.net.au>

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On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:43:37PM +1100, Zero Sum wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2001 12:22, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:26:10AM +1100, Zero Sum wrote:
> >> 
> >> Okay, so I must be missing something...
> >> 
> >> Why does the following :-
> >> 
> >> >> Attempting to fetch from 
> >> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/sobomax/.
> >> fetch: galeon-0.8.4.tar.gz: Operation timed out                          
>    
> >>                                                                          
>    
> >> reproducibly put the following line in my *firewall* log.
> >> 
> >> ICQ: Unknown version (27129)
> >> 
> >> Urgle....  I could undrstand some sort of accept or deny message in my 
> log, 
> >> but just that bald ICQ statement in the firewall log?  What gives?
> >
> >I've only seen that from Ethereal. That's really in your firewall log?
> 
> 
> I was tailing /var/log/security.  I was incorrect, it does not appear in 
> the log, just on the screen - an xterm.  grep reveals no ICQ in any log file
> 
> So it is not "in the firewall log" - my stupid mistake.  However, I can't 
> figure out where it comes from as it appears on the single xterm that I use 
> to tail my logs.  It is not (apparently) a console message as it is not in 
> /var/log/messages.

Did you start Ethereal from that window? Like I said, I've seen that
from Ethereal. What other programs claim that xterm as their pty?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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