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Date:      Sun, 7 Apr 1996 23:10:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
To:        David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, dob@nasvr1.cb.att.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -current & "Connection attempt to..." console messages? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.92.960407230529.15713F-100000@freebsd.ki.net>
In-Reply-To: <199604080259.TAA01778@Root.COM>

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On Sun, 7 Apr 1996, David Greenman wrote:

> >On Sun, 7 Apr 1996, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >
> >> >    The option to do non-existent port logging was recently added and defaults
> >> > to on. I think it should default to off. In any case, it is controlled with a
> >> > sysctl variable (I forget which one - do a sysctl -a).
> >>
> >> I'm open to input on this, I just left it on as default to make sure there
> >> would be a discussion :-)
> >>
> >
> >	What is meant by "non-existent port" logging?  What is a "non-existent
> >port"?
>
>    Ahem. In this case it means "a port for which there is no listener/socket".
>
	So something like ftpd/identd that has to be started up by inetd each
time?  is it possible to at least change the log level for the messages, so that
you can redirect it to a file to its own?

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