[H-GEN] Qmail and what appears to be biff

[Gary Curtis]

David Jericho wrote:
> 
> I finally decided to do something about an error icmpinfo has been giving
> me in my syslog for a while now. In short, I get the error
> 
>         Feb 15 13:23:47 meesha icmpinfo: ICMP_Dest_Unreachable[Port] <
> 127.0.0.1 [localhost] > 127.0.0.1 [localhost] sp=48644 dp=512
> seq=0x00290e63 sz=69(+20)
> 
> In short, it seems that qmail, or something else is trying to connect to
> port 512 on the localhost, According to /etc/services, thats comsat(8),
> which is related to biff. I can't find anything on the qmail site
> regarding it, I don't seem to have comsat or the man page. Anyone have any
> ideas or clues for me? Various other qmail users have been getting the
> same error (ands its eating up half of my /var/log/messages :)

I use qmail and have never experienced this problem!

Find some other program to malign.  ;-)

Are you an AfterStep user?  It has a biffo thingy, doesn't it?

Gaz
-- 
========================================================================
 Gary R Curtis                             mailto:opus.logic at uq.net.au
 Brisbane,  Queensland,  Australia         mailto:gaz at etc.humbug.org.au
========================================================================
----------------------- HUMBUG General List --------------------------------
echo "unsubscribe general" | mail majordomo at humbug.org.au # To Unsubscribe