origin of system message?

[Oliver Koch]

Hello,

Robert Huff schrieb:

> 	The following appears in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Feb 14 17:03:50 jerusalem kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 209.6.203.219:1026 from 202.97.238.130:52821
> 
> 	presumably through the agency of syslog.
> 	What program/process issues this, and at what facility and
> level?

please check if these two sysctl values are set:

net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain: 1 # Log all incoming TCP connections
net.inet.udp.log_in_vain: 1 # Log all incoming UDP packets

Kind regards,

Oliver

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