From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 5 13:54:58 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA08471 for current-outgoing; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 13:54:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca (eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca [131.104.48.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA08466 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 13:54:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from josh@localhost) by eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca (8.8.3/8.7.3) id QAA28531 for current@freebsd.org; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 16:50:51 -0500 (EST) From: Josh Tiefenbach Message-Id: <199612052150.QAA28531@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca> Subject: Odd message from ftpd To: current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 16:50:51 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Recently I've been getting the following message from ftpd in /var/log/messages: Dec 5 11:29:20 eddie ftpd[27849]: /etc/pwd.db: No such file or directory It's happened about 3 times in the past 2 days or so, all while anonymous ftp usage was taking place. I wasnt able to get the message reproduced. Is this a problem with ftpd, or is someone trying to crack into my machine. Running -current from about Nov 13. thx josh -- Josh Tiefenbach | "I am a yapping dog with mean little teeth. President, | I am as often as wrong as you, as often as Society for Computing | co-opted as you, as often sophomoric as you. and Information Science. | But I maintain. As do you." University of Guelph | -- Harlan Ellison mailto:josh@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca Web: http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~josh