From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 7 20:10:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA24109 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 20:10:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA24098 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 20:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id XAA17164; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 23:10:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id XAA16993; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 23:10:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 23:10:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: David Greenman cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , dob@nasvr1.cb.att.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: -current & "Connection attempt to..." console messages? In-Reply-To: <199604080259.TAA01778@Root.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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? Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc