From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 15 01:58:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1DF16A400 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:58:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE5A13C47E for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:58:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so7014ugh for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:58:17 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MlLjezot7uFsd7auDMrbIXyCSdI+ZL9hPUOeCoZkcA0A9uuMwV75aleJjaPFHmNubxr5t2zWy1uxPKH8OGJgeaqyTqEAPoaRFtnJXVvZLoQRtgEq7gn5POV1LhV714ifpwhgaKfBA1i68pTMCRrCE/SqgwCJeMHQpAkgJXLl+lU= Received: by 10.78.183.15 with SMTP id g15mr23725huf.1171504697291; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:58:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.195.14 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:58:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <57d710000702141758n18d7d2b6tf710639b661234d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:58:17 -0800 From: "pete wright" To: "Robert Huff" In-Reply-To: <17875.40030.186110.223360@jerusalem.litteratus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200702142204.l1EM4XZv001580@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <17875.35782.223268.107539@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <45D38DF5.60207@rz.tu-clausthal.de> <17875.37343.235431.762503@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <57d710000702141513l62a3e760lbe50ddfed9249831@mail.gmail.com> <17875.40030.186110.223360@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: origin of system message? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:58:19 -0000 On 2/14/07, Robert Huff wrote: > pete wright writes: > > > > > > Feb 14 17:03:50 jerusalem kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 209.6.203.219:1026 from 202.97.238.130:52821 > > > > > > > > > > What program/process issues this, and at what facility and > > > > > level? > > > > I don't want to stop the messages, merely re-direct them. > > > > you can set that up in your syslog.conf(5) file. > > > And in order to do that ... what information do I need? > > :-) heh, sorry. the man page for syslog.conf is pretty helpfull for setting this stuff up. the command to read it is "man 5 syslog.conf" so that was short hand. it'll show you how to setup rules for various log messages and how to route them to different log files(or syslogd servers). i suspect you want a log file that'll just contain these UDP and TCP connection attempts... -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group