From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 4 9: 0:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from michael.lhtek.com (michael.lhtek.com [63.145.41.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D3AE37B408 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12158 invoked by uid 1005); 4 Oct 2001 16:00:41 -0000 Received: from dominic.lhtek.com (HELO jgordon) (63.145.41.2) by michael.lhtek.com with SMTP; 4 Oct 2001 16:00:38 -0000 Message-ID: <010b01c14ced$abb15410$0305000a@lhtech.lhtek.com> From: "Jeffrey D. Gordon" To: References: <002401c14cec$da6db420$0d00a8c0@mshome.net> Subject: Re: eggdrop Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 11:00:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 l Cheers! JDG -- -- J e f f r e y D . G o r d o n o f A l l i a n t e * E n t e r t a i n m e n t http://www.alliante.com-- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shannon Wheeler" To: 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 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message