From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 13: 3:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from darkstar.inetu.net (darkstar.inetu.net [207.18.13.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3E6154D8 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:03:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kerberus@inetu.net) Received: from inetu.net (root@localhost.inetu.net [127.0.0.1]) by darkstar.inetu.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA06540; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:02:55 GMT (envelope-from kerberus@inetu.net) Message-ID: <36E697AE.8EECCB01@inetu.net> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:02:54 +0000 From: Kerberus Reply-To: kerberus@inetu.net Organization: INetU, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Bailey Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" , "'Jerry Raynor'" Subject: Re: daily security check output References: <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC0301FEF3F0@HOUSTON> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG your about close on this, but id notice it is a chat cgi, probably perl based and it can wreak havoc on some systems,to fiund the culprit try find / -name "chat.cgi" -print its probably going to turn up in /home/someuser ??? and ave a look at the code, or use perl in debug mode to see what is causing it to bail. if its perl Jon Bailey wrote: > Jerry, > A segfault is a "bad thing", only as much as meaning "it crashed". It's > the same thing as a General Protection Fault in Windows, basically, a > program for some reason made an attempt to access part of memory, or > resources, which it was not allowed to (It tried to work outside of its > "segment"), and as a result the OS terminated it, and logged the message. > > This isn't an attack, just a program crashing. :-) > > -jon > > P.s. (If I'm not correct on this, ppl, please correct me. ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message