From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 17:04:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20564 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:04:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20444 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:04:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jegelhof@cloud9.net) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (IDENT:Cl4oCfVeWlinQrvQ5sh7Uvbxdp50Fm88@earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0/rc-19980602) with SMTP id UAA15333; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 20:03:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 20:03:35 -0400 (EDT) From: James Egelhof To: Doug White cc: Jeremy , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to stop connections on port 512/513 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You will get conections on port 512 from mail.local unless you configure sendmail to call mail.local with the -b flag. man mail.local for information on the flag. www.sendmail.org for information on making a new sendmail.cf file to incorporate the flag. -james On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Jeremy wrote: > > > Dear All > > > > I disabed exec and comsat serviecs in INETD and I turned on log in vain to > > check things out.... > > > > how can I stop my system from doing these strange connections? > > /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:1982 > > /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from 127.0.0.1:1982 > > /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:1819 > > The top two are from Big Brother. > The bottom one is identd trying to check on something. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > --- James Egelhof jegelhof@cloud9.net Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc. +1 (914) 696-4000 White Plains, New York http://www.cloud9.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message