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Date:      Wed, 5 Jan 2000 23:22:12 -0600
From:      Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com>
To:        Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange UDP messages
Message-ID:  <20000105232212.C49125@lovett.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001052141540.17839-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>; from bsdx@looksharp.net on Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 09:43:47PM -0500
References:  <20000106122321.P30038@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001052141540.17839-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>

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On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 09:43:47PM -0500, Adam wrote:
> >
> >> And why didn't it happen before the machine mysteriously rebooted
> >> itself this morning?  (This is 3.3-RELEASE with comsat disabled in
> >> /etc/inetd.conf)
> >
> >Well, that's the reason.  Disable comsat, and you won't be able to
> >connect.
> 
> I get these too and since I have comsat disabled I'd like to stop whatever
> it is from trying to notifying comsat :) Pretty annoying.. 

It's almost certainly going to be procmail..  by default, the sources
(including from the port) will build with the code that tries to talk
to comsat on local mail delivery.

Rebuilding with -DNO_COMSAT added to the CFLAGS fixes that
(sadly, there doesn't appear to be a run-time flag to set this,
 perhaps there needs to be).

-aDe

> [snipped named stuff]

-- 
Ade Lovett, Austin, TX.


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