From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 15:30:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E17D237B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:30:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eARNTOF17311; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:29:26 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:29:24 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: Ryan Breding , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UDP Connections to port 512 In-Reply-To: <20001127183713.B5103@buffy.local> 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, 27 Nov 2000, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > 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. A quick search of the mail archives (something you should do before posting to -questions) reveals that this question is asked many times. sendmail(8) is trying to notify users about a mail delivery. There are a couple of ways to turn this feature off: - put FEATURE(`no_default_msa') in your sendmail.cf file and regenerate. - add -B to the LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS in sendmail.cf, regenerate. -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message