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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2001 11:00:20 -0500
From:      "Jeffrey D. Gordon" <jgordon@alliante.com>
To:        <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: eggdrop
Message-ID:  <010b01c14ced$abb15410$0305000a@lhtech.lhtek.com>
References:  <002401c14cec$da6db420$0d00a8c0@mshome.net>

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Shannon,

Eggdrop is an IRC bot written in C, most likely run by one of your users.
I doubt that it was hurting your POP3 server, especially since it didnt come
back up until you rebooted.

For a quick information summary about eggdrop:
http://searchmiddleware.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci330402,00.htm
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Cheers!
    JDG

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shannon Wheeler" <swheeler@mcmurraycomputer.com>
To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:54 AM
Subject: eggdrop


> feel free to come down on me hard about this...
>
> yesterday my pop3 was not responding, so I telneted in and saw that
> something called eggdrop1.4 was running...
>
> I killed it right away (shot first, ask questions later), but qpopper
still
> didn't respond so I rebooted.
>
> Eventually qpopper started responding again but it seemed to take a long
> time and I had to start Apache manually.
>
> Was eggdrop something to do with CVS that I shouldn't have stopped?
>
> yes, I've looked it up. All references I've found refer to an IRC bot. -
> Someone just guessed or snooped my password?
>
> Any suggestions for a secure telnet?
>
> thanks,
> Shannon
>
>
>
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