Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 16:37:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: brian@filoli.com (Brian Queen) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mystery phone call Message-ID: <199604082337.QAA03456@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960408142223.17681A-100000@sundial.filoli.com> from "Brian Queen" at Apr 8, 96 02:25:40 pm
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> In the middle of the night last night my machine made a call to > somewhere, and I even heard the hard drive churning. > > Is there a log file I can check to see what was going on? A security audit is run nightly (makes for a bad machine for a bedroom). It can be disabled by modifying /etc/daily. The log should be in the root mailbox. Login as root and run mail. I'd be surprised if it made a call. If you have a service provider, then when it went to do the name lookup, if you have your network configured incorrectly, it could have been sendmail firing the phone call off to talk to your nameserver. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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