[techtalk] bizarre....

[Cynthia Dale]

Well, if the person who got it also killed syslogd (which of course they
would), she wouldn't've noticed until it dialed again.
C

Cynthia J. Dale
Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer
Red Hat, Inc.

fnord.


On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jenn V. wrote:

> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:42:12 +1100
> From: Jenn V. <jenn at simegen.com>
> Reply-To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
> 
> 
> 
> wizard111 at netzero.net wrote:
> > 
> > Sounds like SOMEONE got into your system.
> 
> > > Okay, so today I was using my ppp connection for several hours, then we
> > > went to watch Sunday night Fox and came back.  I have the command to dial
> > > aliased to include tail -f /var/log/messages.  I told it to dial, and it
> > > said "tail: no such file /var/log/messages." 
> 
> Except that it looks like the problem occured while she was
> offline.
> 
> Oh, I admit that it's possible that someone set things up while
> she was online to crash when she next dialled, but that's really
> strange behaviour to find as the result of a hack.
> 
> 
> Jenn V.
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