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Date:      Wed, 03 Oct 2001 07:42:00 -0500
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        ANdrei <andrei@abc.ro>
Cc:        rik@rikrose.net, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: last
Message-ID:  <3BBB0797.C18CBA8B@centtech.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0110031129110.3489-100000@pkl.net> <3BBAF0B7.2CC21C7B@abc.ro>

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I have had my FreeBSD boxes crash like this a few times.  Typically, it's been
a CPU overheating for me.  It really IS a crash.  The ~ is what last puts in
there when the system is rebooted without a user abruptly.

All hackers leave a trace.

Eric



ANdrei wrote:

> rik@rikrose.net wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, ANdrei wrote:
> > > it wasn't for sure me :), but i just had my firewall down for a few
> > > mins, and then it happened... was this just a coincidence?
> >
> > It could have been a power cut, or even a brown out, or someone else while
> > you were working on the firewall :)
>
> nope, in that case you don't get that log entry from last (i'm almost
> sure about that) and your file-systems get checked at startup for sure,
> and mine didn't... it was a clkean shutdown... plus there was no power
> cut, because we have about 40 computers in the company, and none
> rebooted except mine...
>
> I'm so suspicious because I had a few times people trying to hack me,
> and 2 times they were real profis, and i believe they got through this
> time and left almost no evidence of their passing...
>
> >
> > > and smtg else: what ports and protocol are used when accesing a samba
> > > share? i'm talking about a broadcast network, where people should be
> > > able to access public shares from other computers, which have
> > > firewalls...
> >
> > 137-140 roughly, depending on what version of Windows you're using. I
> > noticed 2000 has lots more useless ports open than any of the others,
> > by default, sometimes including qotd, although I've not found the setting
> > to control it. Some machines it's on, some it's not. I don't know why,
> > but then I understand so little of MicroSofts products...
>
> I understand little about M$ too :)  I found out i have an error in my
> configuration of samba, or something like that, the ports i knew were
> good: 135, 137, 138 and 139
>
> maybe anybody has other ideas about the weird TILDA ~ in the
> "last"-output, and what/who it was...
>
> >
> > --
> > PGP Key: D2729A3F - Keyserver: wwwkeys.uk.pgp.net - rich at rdrose dot org
> > Key fingerprint = 5EB1 4C63 9FAD D87B 854C  3DED 1408 ED77 D272 9A3F
> > Public key also encoded with outguess on http://rikrose.net
> >
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