Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 17:02:21 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: "Brandon Fosdick" <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Odd kernel messages Message-ID: <01050217022100.49077@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <002401c0d365$7bb808f0$a3d70880@darkstar> References: <002401c0d365$7bb808f0$a3d70880@darkstar>
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On Wednesday 02 May 2001 16:10, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> For the past few weeks I've been seeing some odd kernel log messages. Like
> so:
>
> ^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
>-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
>-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
>-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
>-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
>-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
>-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
>-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM
>-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^PM-^P
>
> I'm stumped. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -Brandon
>
> PS. Don't bug me about the word-wrap, I'm stuck on a Win2K machine with
> Outlook. Yes I know it sucks, I hate it too. I'll be back into bsd by
> tomorrow, I promise.
It's an old Linux hack script that doesn't work anymore. Script kiddies still
try it though. The bigger question is why you have rpc statd on your outside
interface. You should disable it, or block it with your firewall.
Good luck,
Beech
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