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From: Ajanta on 5 Nov 2005 11:07
Just installed Little Snitch on trial basis, and I see a few messages
like:

"SyndicationAgent wants to connect to c10-btg-xw-lb.cnet.com on TCP
port 80 (http)"

I clicked "deny" and nothing untoward happened with what I was doing.

But I am curious: What is SyndicationAgent? Good, bad?

I have PB with osx 10.4.3.
From: Cillit Bang on 5 Nov 2005 11:14
In article <051120051007052905%ajanta(a)null.void>,
Ajanta <ajanta(a)null.void> wrote:

> Just installed Little Snitch on trial basis, and I see a few messages
> like:
>
> "SyndicationAgent wants to connect to c10-btg-xw-lb.cnet.com on TCP
> port 80 (http)"
>
> I clicked "deny" and nothing untoward happened with what I was doing.
>
> But I am curious: What is SyndicationAgent? Good, bad?
>
> I have PB with osx 10.4.3.

Google says:

<https://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/InternetWeb/SafariRSS.html>

and that tells us:

"The SyndicationAgent process downloads news articles in the background
every half hour (by default). Safari launches it when you view a news
feed or bookmark a "feed:" URL.

You may want to add the agent to your startup items so it will start
fetching news as soon as you log in. You can do this via the usual
startup items list in the Accounts system pref panel. The agent can be
found in
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Syndication.framework/Resources/Syndica
tionAgent."

So: not bad.

-- Cillit
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