From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 20 17:10:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25510 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:10:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25502 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:10:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA25625; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:10:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:10:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Jan B. Koum " cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd 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 On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Jan B. Koum wrote: > > Anyone might know where this is coming from? Someone is trying to send you syslog packets and you have syslogd running with the -s option, which disallows communications through that socket. See the syslogd manpage for details. It gets me that syslogd opens the socket then throws away the data, instead of skipping the socket call altogether... > Message from syslogd@0wn at Tue Jul 21 11:03:16 1998 ... > 0wn syslogd: discarded 4 unwanted packets in secure mode > > Message from syslogd@0wn at Tue Jul 21 11:04:01 1998 ... > 0wn syslogd: discarded 8 unwanted packets in secure mode Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message