Re: LOG: incomplete startup packet

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From: Rodrigo Hjort <rodrigo(dot)hjort(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: LOG: incomplete startup packet
Date: 2006-01-17 12:33:56
Message-ID: 731083980601170433o695dc626n@mail.gmail.com
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What is the cause of this line in the LOG?
What could be done in order to fix it?

[2006-01-16 20:00:10 BRT] LOG: autovacuum: processing database "cep"
[2006-01-16 20:01:17 BRT] LOG: autovacuum: processing database "postgres"
[2006-01-16 20:02:03 BRT] [unknown] LOG: incomplete startup packet
[2006-01-16 20:02:18 BRT] LOG: autovacuum: processing database "sentinela"
[2006-01-16 20:03:20 BRT] LOG: autovacuum: processing database "template1"
[2006-01-16 20:04:20 BRT] LOG: autovacuum: processing database "detran"

2006-01-17 10:13:00 LOG: pacote de inicialização incompleto
2006-01-17 10:16:00 LOG: pacote de inicialização incompleto
2006-01-17 10:19:02 LOG: pacote de inicialização incompleto
2006-01-17 10:22:03 LOG: pacote de inicialização incompleto
2006-01-17 10:22:03 LOG: arquivo do log de transação "0000000700000064"
reciclado

Regards,

Rodrigo Hjort
GTI - Projeto PostgreSQL
CELEPAR - Cia de Informática do Paraná
http://www.pr.gov.br


From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rodrigo Hjort <rodrigo(dot)hjort(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: LOG: incomplete startup packet
Date: 2006-01-17 15:23:21
Message-ID: 28485.1137511401@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Rodrigo Hjort <rodrigo(dot)hjort(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> What is the cause of this line in the LOG?

> [2006-01-16 20:02:03 BRT] [unknown] LOG: incomplete startup packet

Broken client software, or possibly something portscanning your machine.
It's reporting a bogus connection attempt.

regards, tom lane


From: Rodrigo Hjort <rodrigo(dot)hjort(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: LOG: incomplete startup packet
Date: 2006-01-17 17:11:23
Message-ID: 731083980601170911x4d49c882x@mail.gmail.com
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That's it! There was a service monitoring application that does a kind of
"nmap -p 5432" to the PostgreSQL server periodically.

2006/1/17, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>
> Rodrigo Hjort <rodrigo(dot)hjort(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > What is the cause of this line in the LOG?
>
> > [2006-01-16 20:02:03 BRT] [unknown] LOG: incomplete startup packet
>
> Broken client software, or possibly something portscanning your machine.
> It's reporting a bogus connection attempt.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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Regards,

Rodrigo Hjort
GTI - Projeto PostgreSQL
CELEPAR - Cia de Informática do Paraná
http://www.pr.gov.br