From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 15 18:50:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 83A4316A41F for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:50:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: from smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1654643D49 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:50:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: (qmail 49468 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2006 18:50:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.6?) (jekillen@prodigy.net@69.235.31.215 with plain) by smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Jan 2006 18:50:57 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <40cbe55e9104b460fbf612695894e6e0@prodigy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: je killen Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:50:55 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Subject: message appears at prompt 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: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:50:58 -0000 The following messages are appearing at my terminal on a frequent basis: (Jan 15 09:23:05 e-mach login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 Jan 15 09:25:43 e-mach login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 ....preceeding from /var/log/messages) (these are the messages of concern:) Jan 15 09:32:54 e-mach inetd[503]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use Jan 15 09:42:54 e-mach inetd[503]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use Jan 15 09:52:54 e-mach inetd[503]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use The question is: What is going on here? It appears to be a conflict as one process is trying to bind to an address that is being used by another process However, I don't know if that is what 'bind' is in this context. If it doesn't mean DNS BIND then that eliminates that possibility. Please excuse my newbe question but I hope it doesn't mean that someone's script has snuck onto my machine from the network and beyond. These messages are appearing when the proxy/router machine is not even turned on. I would chase this down myself and not use the list but I don't know enough of where to look. The only clue I have is that sshd starts on boot and is also enabled in inetd.conf. Could this be the conflict? Thanks so much JK