From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 18:55:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E92937B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:55:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b026.otenet.gr [195.167.121.154]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eAU2rm509097; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:53:49 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAT2R9f09551; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 04:27:09 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 04:27:09 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Keramidas Message-Id: <200011290227.eAT2R9f09551@hades.hell.gr> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, rbreding@drizzle.theriver.nu Subject: Re: UDP Connections to port 512 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Ryan Breding : > > I keep getting these messages in the /var/log/message output: > > Nov 25 15:12:30 drizzle /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 > from 127.0.0.1:2844 > Nov 25 15:13:54 drizzle /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 > from 127.0.0.1:2851 > > I have checked on the UDP connections to port 512 and it seems that it is > "biff". Is there a setting to turn biff off or am I on the wrong trail > ? I dont see biff running in the process list. What you are seeing is Sendmail trying to connect to the comsat service to notify for new mail arrivals. This feature can be disabled in your .mc file before you generate your sendmail.cf with: FEATURE(no_default_msa)dnl For more information on this, look at /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README: - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message