In article <20000830210729.A227@antioche.eu.org> you wrote:
>> <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`

And if that does the job for you, put the lines back in and
get yourself a "normal" useraccount - do not work as 'root'
under *any* Unix system (including NetBSD :-).

See the adduser(8) manpage.


 - Hubert