Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 05:00:52 PDT From: "N. N.M" <madrapour@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question probably relevant to IPFW Message-ID: <19980920120052.4652.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hi >I do have ipfw active on the machine with packet filtering but >just a default let-anything-through filter. > >I didn't get any log entries like this, I've even been logged >in just before the machine's rebooted before and there was no-one >else logged in, no strange netstat -i entries.. > >What was in your cron that starts up at this time? /etc/daily? > >home# time /etc/daily ><snip! crap..> >real 1m25.888s >user 0m2.159s >sys 0m12.067s > >This machine's only a P75 and yet it still manages to finish >/etc/daily in 1minute 25seconds. Was it 02:05 exactly? > >Mine's not rebooted in 6 days btw.. > >Regards, > >Jay Tribick <netadmin@fastnet.co.uk> The exact lines in /var/cron/log are as follow (these lines are repeated in /var/cron/log file whenever automatically rebooting is occured): Sep 18 02:00:00 MACHINE-NAME CRON [21019]: (root) CMD ( /etc/daily 2> &1 | sendmail root) Sep 18 02:00:00 MACHINE-NAME CRON [21020]: (root) CMD (/usr/sbin/newsyslog) Sep 18 02:00:00 MACHINE-NAME CRON [21021]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Sep 18 02:05:32 MACHINE-NAME cron [8949]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) It seems whenever this combination of the commands occure, it reboots. I mean a combination of: sendmail root, newsyslog and atrun; it reboots. I've commented the daily, weekly and monthly in "crontab" file to see if the problem will be fixed or not. Regards, Nazila M. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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