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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 1996 13:53:01 -0700
From:      "Mark O'Lear" <Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU>
To:        Frode Nordahl <froden@bigblue.no>
Cc:        "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Hackers?
Message-ID:  <328B86AD.700D@Colorado.EDU>
References:  <199611141447.PAA02691@login.bigblue.no>

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Frode Nordahl wrote:
> 
> Last night, one of our FreeBSD 2.1.5 machines rebooted.  There is no entry of it in the messages file, but the lastlog says this
> 
> xxx       ttyp0    xxxx            Thu Nov 14 02:11 - 02:13  (00:01)
> reboot    ~                         Thu Nov 14 02:01
> xxxx     ttyp7    xxxxxxxxx Thu Nov 14 00:36 - 00:44  (00:07)
> 
> (Usernames and hostnames of the entry above/under are scratched out...)
> 
> As you can see, no one was logged on at the time.  The messages file has noe entries of the activity other than the kernel
> startupmessages.
> 
> Can a FreeBSD box do this of itself if it gets into trouble?  Memory fault, disk fault or something like that?  Or do we have reason
> to believe this is hacker activity?
> 
> In any case, what should we do??

I had a 2.2-960501-SNAP do this to me the other night as well
(after being up over 80 days).  I can find no indication that
anyone did anything as well.

xxxxxxxx  cuaa0                     Sat Nov  9 11:04 - 12:42  (01:37)
reboot    ~                         Sat Nov  9 03:45 
xxxxxxxx  cuaa0                     Fri Nov  8 19:18 - 19:23  (00:04)

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