Yeah, I found that earlier today, and already modified logwatch. I also confirmed that sgi-fam is only bound to loopback on this box, so that makes me feel a little better.
Still a mystery what is triggering it, though. -Hank On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Alejandro Perretta < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Read from some doc: > sgi_fam service: > FAM is a file monitoring daemon that detects when files have > changed and then performs some action. > > Courier imap doesnt need FAM, so maybe you can disable it. > > Read this thread: > > http://da.nieltiggemann.de/comp/fedora/logwatch_sgi_fam.html > > > cheers. > > Alejandro Peretta > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Hank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks. > > > > From what I remember, Courier IMAP requires FAM, which requires xinetd, > > which is why I suspected the toaster. > > > > Sure, I can supress the messages, but I'd like to find out why > Courier-IMAP > > is generating them, and exactly what process or access is triggering > these > > errors. > > > > This box is a web and mail server behind two firewalls, so I don't > suspect a > > security hole, but I'd like to eliminate that possibility. > > > > -Hank > > > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Kristofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Hank wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello All, > >>> I've been getting the following messages in my /var/log/messages > file > >>> for a while now, but I have no idea how to track down exactly what > process > >>> is causing them: > >>> **Unmatched Entries** > >>> xinetd[5042]: START: sgi_fam pid=31985 from=<no address> > >>> xinetd[5042]: START: sgi_fam pid=32347 from=<no address> > >>> Sometimes there aren't any, sometimes it is two or three, and > sometimes > >>> it could be 30 or 40 messages. My hunch is that it has something to > do > >>> with the toaster, but really don't know enough to dig further. > >>> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. > >> > >> This has nothing whatsoever to do with toaster. > >> > >> But you can turn it off easily, just google a bit. > >> > >> cheers, > >> Kristofer > > > > >
