Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:29:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: ronan@melim.com.br (Ronan Lucio) Cc: gavin@ury.york.ac.uk (Gavin Atkinson), ad1na@yahoo.com (ADiNA), stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Also weird packet (Was: weird packet ... anyone) Message-ID: <200108031529.IAA51319@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <01d101c11c22$d4eaada0$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br> from Ronan Lucio at "Aug 3, 2001 10:47:26 am"
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[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hi All, > > > > later on, i got these ... > > > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:2027 > > > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:2032 > > > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:2032 > > > Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:2041 > > > .... > > > > Sendmail attempting to connect back to thelocalhost's 'biff' service > > (comsat) which runs on UDP port 512. Harmless. > > I have the same problem and I have sendmail disabled in such machine. > > I found this: > 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 > > Does anyone now how to disable new mail notify? Change the Mlocal line in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, add option B to the flags= values. Read man mail.local, and src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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