There's a daemon called inetd, or the "superserver" that sits and listens to
calls on different ports. What happenned was that somebody tried to connect
to your box using ftp, and inetd started the ftp daemon. Usually (but
definately not always), services started by inetd have a "in." in front of
them. If you edit /etc/inetd.conf, you can see what's set up to be run from
inetd and comment it out. Don't forget to restart inetd. A quick way to
check what you have running is imap. It's what I do to see if I missed
anything.
James wrote:
> I've just noticed in my log files which were generated by "Logcheck" from
> my Linux box an "in.ftpd" connection.. what exactly is that? Here is what
> I have:
>
> in.ftpd[2488]: connect from 209.239.229.3
>
> Thanks for any reply.
>
> james
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