Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Alessandro Vesely writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I keep getting this message
>>
>>    # Checking listening processes
>>    NEW: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `couriertcpd' is listening on 
>> socket 57123 (UDP on every interface) is run by courier.
>>
>> It looks bogus (otherwise it would have been named `courierudpd', eh?)
>> I asked on other lists to no avail.
>> Debian Tiger gets that data from lsof.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this? Any clue?
> 
> This is utterly bogus.  couriertcpd does not listen on any UDP socket.  
> The only thing I can think of is that ident queries are UDP packets, and 
> couriertcpd is waiting to receive a response to an ident query, for a 
> short period of time.  In any case, this is sheer nonsense.

Yes, in effect that's an open socket. Actually I have -noidentlookup on each
couriertcpd, but pop3d is running without -nodnslookup. Black lists lookup
also needs an open socket...

Thanx



























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