On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:50:34 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 03:45 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: [...] > /sbin/service yum-updatesd stop > /sbin/chkconfig yum-updatesd off > > Are you sure that it is yum-updatesd that is creating the ftp > connections? > > Craig I did what you said. No I am not sure yum-updatesd is doing it. Do you have any other suggestions? In any case, I set iptables thus: -A OUT -p tcp --dport 20:21 -j LOG-FTP-DROP with LOG-FTP-DROP appropriately defined, so I will see if anything else is doing it. Mike.