From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 30 22:26:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BB937B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:26:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (boris.ST.HMC.Edu [134.173.63.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2199543F3F for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:26:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff@unixconsults.com) Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (localhost.st.hmc.edu [127.0.0.1]) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0V6QIA1058173; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:26:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff@unixconsults.com) Received: from localhost (jeff@localhost) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h0V6QI0h058170; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:26:18 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: boris.st.hmc.edu: jeff owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:26:18 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Jirsa X-X-Sender: jeff@boris.st.hmc.edu To: Kjell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel message when sending mail In-Reply-To: <3E3A21DD.22672.190074@localhost> Message-ID: <20030130222348.C58127-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by unixconsults.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Kjell wrote: > Each time I send an email using Mutt the following message pops up on > the screen: > > > /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:1572 > > > What could be the cause? > TCP port 113 is the Auth service. When you send mail, sendmail will attempt to verify the username on the other end of the connection by querying auth. You have auth disabled: if you want to enable it, edit /etc/inetd.conf (the comments in inetd.conf are quite good, but inetd.conf(8) will help too). - Jeff Jirsa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message