From owner-freebsd-security Sun Sep 13 06:06:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA00952 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 06:06:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA00944 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 06:06:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no (2602@gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.40]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id PAA15929; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 15:06:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by gjallarhorn.ifi.uio.no ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 15:06:34 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "N. N.M" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question probably relevant to IPFW References: <19980913104429.16468.qmail@hotmail.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 13 Sep 1998 15:06:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: "N. N.M"'s message of "Sun, 13 Sep 1998 03:44:28 PDT" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id GAA00947 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "N. N.M" writes: > I was wondering if somebody could help me. I had a FreeBSD with IPFW > active on it to filter some kinds of packets. It was rebooted > automatically and frequently every 2 or 3 days at 2 am. I've removed > IPFW from it and also set up another FreeBSD (with the same > configuration) as the active filter. Now the new computer does the same: > it's rebooted automacally and frequently every 2-3 days at 2 am. But the > former computer hasn't been rebooted after removing IPFW from it and > since the time it wasn't the active filter. Sounds to me like something in /etc/daily crashes your box, since it always happens at 2 am. Anyway, this is not the right list, unless you suspect the reboots are caused by malicious tampering; you should post you question to freebsd-stable or freebsd-current, depending on which version you run. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message