Russell Coker wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 03:40, Blu wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 01:09:29AM -0500, Rod Rodolico wrote: > > > I don't understand what is going on. My machine has > rebooted 5 times > > > between 10:00 and 18:00. I looked in syslog and the line > contains 109 at > > > signs (@). > > > > That could be somebody or something trying to use a buffer overflow > > attack. That kind of attack often crashes the target > machine and leaves > > "less" tends to display zeros in a file as '@' characters. A > sudden reboot > when a file is being written can often result in zeros at the > end of the file > when the meta-data has been updated before the file contents. > > Most likely it's a symptom of minor FS corruption. > I second that. Some (SuSE-specific?) versions of reiserfs did that pretty often, it's a FAQ in the suse-security mailing list. So I'd vote for bad memory or a dying cpu fan (which yields to freezes or sudden reboots).
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