On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 01:41:52 -0300, Henrique wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 05:30:29PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > 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) > > "Bad port"? That's one I've not seen before. >
Paul T. Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -currently seeking employment- > > Using fetchmail by chance? Annoying isn't it. > > What is annoying is that nobody reported the bug to me. > > > > How can I log (or discover) which port is being sought? > > > > None apparently. That's probably the problem... > > And it is a big one if this is true :( If you guys track it down to > fetchmail, please submit a bug report, and be warned that it'll probably > require gdb traces to find the problem unless I manage to duplicate the > problem here. > > > Stop fetchmail and see if they disappear ;) > > And by all means tell me if they do disappear. > Hi there, I found the cause on my system a few minutes ago. >From /var/log/ippl/all.log: Jun 23 02:02:02 ICMP message type destination unreachable... >From a mail (logcheck report): Subject: j001 2001/06/23 02:02 system check From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 02:02:02 -0400 On my system, this only occurs when local mail is delivered. Maybe because I use masqmail instead of fetchmail. IIRC, fetchmail passes the mauil to procmail for delivery, and masqmail delivers the mail directly to /var/spool/mail/user. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm going to read up on procmail in hopes of finding out what port it is looking for, etc. I'm not convinced it's a bug as yet, but then I'm not convinced it's not. You can check this by sending a mail to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sending a mail off host does not cause the entry on my machine. Any ideas? Thanks for all the help. I'll post again when I know more. -ptw
