On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:30:07 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > 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, It doesn't look better; it is removing my EOLs. Mike.