Am Mit, 2003-02-12 um 16.39 schrieb Margaret_Doll: > I am getting the following in the LogWatch for one of my computers. > The number of this messages has been increasing. > Should I be worried?
**Unmatched Entries** xinetd[1084]: FAIL: sgi_fam libwrap from=<no address> xinetd[1085]: FAIL: sgi_fam libwrap from=<no address> Do you know what sgi_fam is? Have you read the manpage? Well, in short: sgi_fam is a file alteration monitor. It is used by applications like nautilus to check whether directories change or new email has arrived. So is is nothing nasty. Secondly if you look at xinetd configuration file covering sgi_fam (/etc/xinetd.d/sgi_fam) you will see that it is bound to localhost only. It is not accessable from the outside. So no danger here. The messages are probably popping up, because you entered "ALL:ALL" in /etc/hosts.deny. You might want to allow access to this service, so add a "sgi_fam: 127.0.0.1" to your /etc/hosts.allow. Cheers, Ralf -- Ralf Spenneberg IPsec/PPTP Kernels for Red Hat Linux: http://www.spenneberg.com/.net/.org/.de Honeynet Project Mirror: http://honeynet.spenneberg.org Snort Mirror: http://snort.spenneberg.org -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
