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Subject: Re: IPFW entries in /var/log/messages
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On Tuesday 18 September 2007 16:05, Mächler Philippe wrote:
> Since a few weeks/months we have the following entries in the
> /var/log/messages logfile.
[]
> [/var/log/messages]
> Sep 18 10:23:03 ns2 kernel: .11:2438 out via bge0
> Sep 18 10:31:35 ns2 kernel:
> Sep 18 10:58:05 ns2 kernel: 80
> Sep 18 10:58:14 ns2 kernel: <<110>ipfw: 7600 Accept UDP
> 80.242.206.245:55041 80.242.192.81:53 in via bge0
> Sep 18 10:58:14 ns2 kernel: 110>ipfw: 7700 Accept UDP
> 80.242.192.81:53 80.242.204.85:65510 out via bge0

I can think of two things.

1) Is anybody playing with logger(1)?
e.g.
logger -t kernel "Let's play with the administrator..."
tail /var/log/messages

2) Are these entries new? Are you sure that they refer
to 2007-09? It can happen. Seeing a message from a year back.
Especially on a low maintenance box.

Nikos