On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:54:50AM +0100, Didier WIROTH typed: > When using log_in_vain="YES" I get a lot of console message of these types: > Jan 21 03:01:12 ultimate kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 > from 127.0.0.1:49188 flags:0x02 > Jan 21 03:01:12 ultimate kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 > from 127.0.0.1:49190 flags:0x02 > Jan 21 03:01:12 ultimate kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 > from 127.0.0.1:49286 > Jan 21 03:01:12 ultimate kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 > from 127.0.0.1:49287 > > I assume the above entries happen when the cron jobs, auth and sendmail > tries to send the daily reports. > > What does log_in_vain actually do/work? Is it possible to tell log_in_vain > to ignore connections form localhost to localhost?
AFAICT, no. It would be quite trivial to edit src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c and udp_usrreq.c to not log these localhost connections, but what would be the point? Ruben > Many thanks > Didier > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
