On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:55:59 +0200 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote: > Platform: Intel Pentium M, > debian sarge (testing/unstable), > arpwatch 2.1a11-6.3 > > After my last "apt-get dist-upgrade", arpwatch has gotten very noisy. > It keeps sending me emails about every matchine it sees on the LAN. > At first it was kind of interesting. Right now, I would rather switch > it off. > > First I looked at the /etc/arpwatch.conf file, which has the following > lines near the end: > # Uncomment this lines to have these interfaces monitored > # sending mails to the local root user > #eth0 -N -p -m root > #eth1 -N -p -m root > > Both the -N and -p flags looked promisng. -N is "don't report any > bogons", and -p is "disable promiscous operations". > > So I uncommented the eth0 line above, and did > /etc/init.d/arpwatch restart > > That just made it noisier, presumably becaus it was busy rebuilding an > eth0-specific database. > > Can anyone assist me in makin arpwatch stop sending emails, short of > doing > apt-get remove arpwatch > ? Previously I have used/created an option in the /etc/init.d startup script for programs that I didn't want to start at bootup time, then I can just run them as I want to. As an example, look at the way apache2 isn't started at boot time until you change NO_START to 0 instead of 1 in /etc/default/apache2 (which is checked by /etc/init.d/apache2). HTH, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #33: Linux: transforms your microcomputer in a workstation. Windows NT: transforms your workstation in a microcomputer.
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