From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 19 8:51:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 400101754F for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 08:51:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA84745; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:48:11 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: s8-37-26.student.washington.edu: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:48:11 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Edirol Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel log messages In-Reply-To: <000501bf1a08$fb13c2a0$0300a8c0@anime.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Edirol wrote: >I've been getting this message logged a few times since I enabled: > >sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain=1 >sysctl -w net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=1 This says do lots of logging. >Oct 19 03:51:30 schala /kernel.old: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 >from 127.0.0.1:1310 >Oct 19 03:58:59 schala /kernel.old: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 >from 127.0.0.1:1319 >Oct 19 04:00:19 schala /kernel.old: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 >from 127.0.0.1:1383 biff 512/udp comsat #used by mail system to notify users # of new mail received; currently # receives messages only from # processes on the same machine From /etc/services. It looks like biff is trying to tell you something. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells Jason Wells | "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither | freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message