Re: Strange warning
On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 10:45:29PM +0200, Alexander Reelsen wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 09:25:07PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote:
> > Anyone know what this means? Even google draws a blank.
> >
> > tcpspy[29190]: /proc/net/tcp: warning: incomplete line
> Taking a very quick look at the source along with reading the description
> of tcpspy makes you feel, it's nothing to totally worry about. That error
> occures if a sscanf() fails when reading the above mentiond file.
>
> <description>
> Description: Incoming and Outgoing TCP/IP connections logger.
> tcpspy is an administrator's tool that logs information
> about incoming and outgoing TCP/IP connections. It's
> written in C and uses no libpcap functions, unlike tcpdump.
> .
> Connections are selected for logging with rules, similarly
> to the filter expressions accepted by tcpdump. The
> following information is logged: username, local address
> and port, remote address and port, and, optionally, the
> executable filename.
> .
> At present, only the IPv4 protocol is supported.
> </description>
>
> Are you using IPv6 and the parsing then fails possibly? Or something like
> that?
>
> If you find the problem, please tell.
I will. What's curious is that it only appeared a few days ago. I have
not yet correlated it with anything in particular, and it doesn't seem
to be happening everywhere. One machine that I'm sure of so far.
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