On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:00:44PM +0200, Thorbjörn Jemander wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've used NetBSD/i386/1.4.2 for a couple of days now and most
> things are working just fine.
> 
> However, there's one thing that annoys me a little bit.
> 
> When I use the system under root, there's constantly
> messages of the type
> 
> <date> <my hostname> portmap[<some number>]: connect from <ip number> to callit(300214)
> 
> coming up in all the shells. Why, should I be concerned and how can I get
> rid of these messages?

These are security messages. To kill them, edit /etc/syslog.conf and
remove the line
*.notice;auth.debug                                     root
then kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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