Re: Is it harmless?

Yep ,
We do connect to 5432 to see if pg is up every min
and disconnect. it is not a db connection but a simple
opening / closing of TCP/IP socket for port 5432.

that is the cheapest port monitoring i could think of


regds
mallah.

On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:54 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Rajesh Kumar Mallah." <mallah@trade-india.com> writes:
> > the following "LOG" lines were found in my /var/log/pgsql
> >
> > LOG:  pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
> > LOG:  incomplete startup packet
> >
> > are they harmless?
>
> Harmless to PG, yes.  They might indicate something worthy of
> investigation though ... like someone portscanning your server.
> Or just a broken client.  Anyway it appears something is connecting
> to your port 5432 and then disconnecting right away.
>
>             regards, tom lane

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