From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jan 7 13:33:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94ABA15877 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:33:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA28355; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:33:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20000107163017.00be7e80@staff.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@staff.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 16:30:17 -0500 To: Michael Maxwell , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Sudden crashing? In-Reply-To: <20000107152815.A11225@typhoon.xnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:28 PM 1/7/00 -0600, Michael Maxwell wrote: >So far, one of my servers, a BSD 3.2-R machine, has mysteriously crashed >twice this week. This machine functions as a gateway and firewall to our >internet connection, so it's the most visible host here. I use ipfw to >block pretty much all the low ports except those we really need, such as >ssh, ntp, smtp, etc... > >I don't see anything in the logs indicating what might have happened. > >Not only that, but ipfw *refuses* to log to syslog on this box!?! My >/etc/syslog.conf is an exact copy of the same file on another machine >which DOES correctly log ipfw. its been a while, but the logging on ipfw had changed at one point. Do you have kern.* /var/log/kernel or something similar in your /etc/syslog.conf file ? ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message