On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:24:30 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:00:45 +1030, Tim wrote: > > [...] >> >> What security software? Doesn't it have some way to tell you what is >> making the access? If you can catch it in the act, yourself, using >> extra parameters with the netstat command can reveal the program doing >> so. e.g. netstat -tuevp >> >> But, like others, I'd suspect it's a FTP YUM mirror being checked. >> >> >> >> Mirror mirror, on the web, who's the updatesed of all... >> > [...] > The security software is stuff I wrote using libipq. I could add the > netstat -tuevp , but I'll wait to see if iptables catches anything. > > BTW, I just got this: > > [root]# rpm -q vim > rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries rpmdb: Unknown > locker ID: 956 > error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument error: cannot open > Packages index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory (12) error: cannot > open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm package vim is not installed > > What should I do about it? > > Thanks, > Mike. The copy and paste does odd things; I hope this looks better: [root]# rpm -q vim rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries rpmdb: Unknown locker ID: 956 error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory (12) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm package vim is not installed Mike,