[Sheflug] console messages & postfix time

["Bill Best" <bill [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for everyone's help on this list - I'm very much a newbie and am
still wrestling with d(a)emons for now but I'll quieten down eventually.

So, has anybody got any idea about these two totally unrelated queries:

1) I'm getting what looks to be /var/log/messages being echoed to my server
console, like this:

Mar  5 12:12:56 media1 kernel: IN=eth2 OUT=
MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:c0:05:03:33:0b:08:00
SRC=80.181.187.63 DST=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=111
ID=45957 DF
PROTO=TCP SPT=4406 DPT=12345 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
Mar  5 12:12:58 media1 kernel: IN=eth2 OUT=
MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:c0:05:03:33:0b:08:00
SRC=80.181.187.63 DST=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=111
ID=46338 DF
PROTO=TCP SPT=4026 DPT=12345 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0

I have checked /etc/syslog.conf and I have this commented out:
#kern.*    /dev/console

So, I don't know why this is the case.

2) Emails from this server have a 5 hour discrepancy on the timestamp.  The
system time is sert to UTC but (I don't know) part of postfix seems to be
set 5 hours earlier.  See this from /var/log/maillog which relates to one
message:

Mar  5 12:50:51 media1 postfix/local[2071]: 9561D4046:
to=<root [at] xxx.xxx.org>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (forwarded as
A78E24049)
Mar  5 07:50:51 media1 postfix/nqmgr[2064]: A78E24049:
from=<root [at] xxx.xxx.org>, size=476, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Mar  5 07:50:52 media1 postfix/smtp[2072]: A78E24049:
to=<bill [at] commedia.org.uk>, relay=mail.gn.apc.org[213.55.2.205], delay=1,
status=sent (250 Ok: queued as D7AEB14B683)

Hope someone can help with these.

TIA

Bill

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