Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:44:13 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Didier WIROTH <didier.wiroth@mcesr.etat.lu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: log_in_vain="YES" Message-ID: <20040123104413.GC27890@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <0HRX00L08SV5Q4@mail.etat.lu> References: <0HRX00L08SV5Q4@mail.etat.lu>
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:54:50AM +0100, Didier WIROTH typed: > When using log_in_vain="YES" I get a lot of console message of these types: > Jan 21 03:01:12 ultimate kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 > from 127.0.0.1:49188 flags:0x02 > Jan 21 03:01:12 ultimate kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 > from 127.0.0.1:49190 flags:0x02 > Jan 21 03:01:12 ultimate kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 > from 127.0.0.1:49286 > Jan 21 03:01:12 ultimate kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 > from 127.0.0.1:49287 > > I assume the above entries happen when the cron jobs, auth and sendmail > tries to send the daily reports. > > What does log_in_vain actually do/work? Is it possible to tell log_in_vain > to ignore connections form localhost to localhost? AFAICT, no. It would be quite trivial to edit src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c and udp_usrreq.c to not log these localhost connections, but what would be the point? Ruben > Many thanks > Didier > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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