firewalls

[Terence J. Golightly]

Greetings Barry,

I'm familiar with your problem.  Did you resolve it?  If not, see below
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On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 18:54 -0400, Barry wrote:
> On 7/18/06, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 15:39, Jeremy J. Swarm wrote:
> >
> > > Mark Shuttleworth uses HTML. it's ok, it's just annoying.
> >
> > That doesn't make it good netiquette on a mailing list.
> >
> > Scott K
> >
> 
> Mea culpa, mea culpa. I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. I rarely write
> mails on gmail. I didn't notice the setting. I
> 
> That said, I started this by asking for firewall suggestions; I chose
> firehol and it's fine, except for one thing: it's logging every thing!
> There's a Mac OS machine that broadcasts every few seconds  on 631 and
> my log's filling up with it.  


That port is for cups.  I my experience there should be a config file
that you can modify to tell cups not to broadcast.  I don't know how
cups works on a Mac, but in Linux you can modify
the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf or the /etc/cups/cups.d/browsing.conf file:

Browsing Off

FWIW, I did this when I was running Mandriva and wahla! no more messages
filling up syslog.

On the other end, I am not familiar with firehol. 

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Regards,

Terry