From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 15:02:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B931D37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:02:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-5-cust38.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.101.150.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F2D43FCB for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:02:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.12) id 198SK3-0002yL-00; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:02:35 +0100 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:02:35 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Kent Stewart Message-ID: <20030423220235.GA11362@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Kent Stewart , questions@freebsd.org References: <20030423181930.GA9237@submonkey.net> <200304231128.38949.kstewart@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304231128.38949.kstewart@owt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: readonly.exe ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:02:39 -0000 On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:28:38AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2003 11:19 am, Ceri Davies wrote: > > Does anyone have any idea what readonly.exe is ? > > > > shrike.private.submonkey.net kernel log messages: > > > pid 74935 (readonly.exe), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) > > > pid 76059 (readonly.exe), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) > > > > As far as I can see it doesn't exist on that system, but I'm slightly > > concerned... (no, there's no core dump either). > > If you run locate, I would try "locate '*.core'" and see who the core > belongs to. I would tend to suspect that someone opened an email with > an attachment that would do nasty things to a Windows system. No core file, as I mentioned above, and the uid concerned was 0 (aka root), otherwise I wouldn't have worried, but the attachment thing was a good idea otherwise. Thanks, Ceri --