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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:20:31 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        George Mamalakis <mamalos@lan.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UDP connection attempts
Message-ID:  <20060719192031.GC733@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060719114613.N18979@ns1.lan.gr>
References:  <20060719114613.N18979@ns1.lan.gr>

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On Wed, 2006-Jul-19 12:07:08 +0300, George Mamalakis wrote:
>In my security logs I keep on getting the following messages:
>Jul 19 03:04:49 ns1 kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 1=
27.0.0.1:52291

As others have mentioned, this is sendmail trying to notify biff that
the user has new mail but you aren't running biff.  To stop it, add
the following lines to your sendmail.mc file, rebuild sendmail.cf and
restart sendmail:

dnl Disable biff notification
define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS', `mail.local -Bl')

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Peter Jeremy

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