Re: /var/log/messages


Subject: Re: /var/log/messages
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 14:43:25 EDT


On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, R Cent wrote:

> I was exploring my /var/log/messages file and found numerous
> occurances resembling the entry shown below. Can someone
> describe what is happening? Presumably they are contacts
> originating from the .95 subnet, I don't have users in the .95
> subnet. Are these messages benign or not? Thanks.
>
>
> Jun 7 07:58:44 fuchslab atalkd[624]: zip ignoring gnireply
> Jun 7 07:58:44 fuchslab atalkd[624]: zip gnireply from 95.250
> (eth0 b2)
> Jun 7 07:58:44 fuchslab atalkd[624]: zip ignoring gnireply
> Jun 7 07:58:44 fuchslab atalkd[624]: zip gnireply from 95.252
> (eth0 b2)
> Jun 7 07:58:44 fuchslab atalkd[624]: zip ignoring gnireply
> Jun 7 07:58:44 fuchslab atalkd[624]: zip gnireply from 95.194
> (eth0 b2)
> Jun 7 07:58:44 fuchslab atalkd[624]: zip ignoring gnireply
> Jun 7 07:58:44 fuchslab atalkd[624]: zip gnireply from 95.150
> (eth0 b2)
> Jun 7 07:58:44 fuchslab atalkd[624]: zip ignoring gnireply

We used to get these all the time from our macs. The problem went away
when we reinstalled the macs, but it came back eventually. I got tired of
the messages cluttering up my logs and patched the netatalk source to only
log these messages at a higher debug level. The messages seem to be
benign.

        Andy



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