Jarry writes: > I just noticed my /var/log/sshd.log is suddenly somehow big. > > After checking it out I have found a lot of messages like this: > > 2011-02-21T03:49:21+00:00 obelix sshd[19767]: SSH: Server;Ltype: > > Version;Remote: my.ip.add.ress-56254;Protocol: 2.0;Client: > > OpenSSH_5.8p1-hpn13v10 > > This message was recorded on 2011-02-14T17:45:24+00:00 for > the first time, and since then exactly every 2 minutes. > I think it was the day when I updated to openssh-5.6-p1-r2. > > So first of all, what does the message mean? And next, > how can I turn it off, or at least reduce its frequency?
Now that you mention it, I see the same messages. This also started happening since I upgraded to openssh-5.8_p1-r1. But I have them only when someone connnects to my server, not every two minutes. Wonko