[BlueOnyx:04797] Re: ProFTPD module mod_ifsession

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

John Simpson wrote:
> My objective is to eliminate the logging of connections occurring from
> 127.0.0.1 every 15 minutes.

How come?  It's just Active Monitor making sure that the service is 
alive.  If the service is alive, a connection is made and Active Monitor 
goes along its merry way for another 15 minutes.  But if there's a 
failure, then it will attempt to fix (restart) the service.

So if you block the system from connecting to itself, it's going to then 
start thinking that FTP has encountered a failure every time it checks, 
which will then cause an email to be sent every 15 minutes to the server 
admin that the service has failed and couldn't be restarted.

Blocking localhost (127.0.0.1) from making that connection may run you 
into further problems, especially if there is any CMS installed on the 
box.  Local FTP transfers will no longer function.  That's a pretty 
common feature of WordPress, Joomla, etc.

So I would say that kludging the box to reject FTP from 127.0.0.1 is 
probably not the answer to your problem.

If you just want to keep Active Monitor from doing its job, then have it 
stop monitoring FTP service in the BX GUI.

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