From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 3 8:30:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DB2E37B405 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA51319; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:29:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200108031529.IAA51319@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Also weird packet (Was: weird packet ... anyone) In-Reply-To: <01d101c11c22$d4eaada0$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br> from Ronan Lucio at "Aug 3, 2001 10:47:26 am" To: ronan@melim.com.br (Ronan Lucio) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:29:43 -0700 (PDT) Cc: gavin@ury.york.ac.uk (Gavin Atkinson), ad1na@yahoo.com (ADiNA), stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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