On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:30:29PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been getting an irritating recurring syslog entry that I'd like to > track down and stifle, but I'm at a loss as to discover what process is > causing the entry. > > The entry is (from logcheck output) this: > > Jun 22 16:02:02 ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from > 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1->127.0.0.1) > Jun 22 16:12:37 ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from > 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1->127.0.0.1) > Jun 22 16:12:38 ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from > 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1->127.0.0.1) > > sorry about the no wrap on the quote. > > There are no other events being logged at identical times, or at similar > times with identical frequencies in any of my logs. > > Does anyone have advice on how to track down the cause?
Using fetchmail by chance? Annoying isn't it. > How can I log (or discover) which port is being sought? None apparently. That's probably the problem... > Is there any way to do this without un-installing individual packages > until the entry ceases to be made? Stop fetchmail and see if they disappear ;) -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
