From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 11:12:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC9EE37B4CF for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:12:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 140Tgs-0000yl-00; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:11:51 +0000 Received: (from cliff@localhost) by buffy.raggedclown (8.10.2/8.10.2) id eARHbD805276; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:37:13 +0100 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:37:13 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Ryan Breding Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UDP Connections to port 512 Message-ID: <20001127183713.B5103@buffy.local> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rbreding@drizzle.theriver.nu on Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:44:59PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:44:59PM -0600, Ryan Breding wrote: > I keep getting these messages in the /var/log/message output: > > Nov 25 15:12:30 drizzle /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 > from 127.0.0.1:2844 > Nov 25 15:13:54 drizzle /kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 > from 127.0.0.1:2851 > > > I have checked on the UDP connections to port 512 and it seems that it is > "biff". Is there a setting to turn biff off or am I on the wrong trail > ? I dont see biff running in the process list. > biff n will turn it off or disable service "comsat" in inetd.conf Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message