On Sunday 22 Jan 2012 17:54:29 Grant wrote:

> > `watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append
> > the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output
> > looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp.
> > 
> >  while true; do
> >    netstat -antp | grep ':993 ' >> mystery.log;
> >    sleep 1;
> >  done;
> > 
> > You'll want to change the port -- I tested to make sure that was really
> > logging my Thunderbird connections.
> 
> I'm still getting the blocked outbound requests to port 3680 on my
> firewall and I'm running the above script (changed 993 to 3680) on the
> local system indicated by SRC in the firewall log, but mystery.log
> remains empty.  I tested the script with other ports and it seems to
> be working fine.
> 
> Also the MAC indicated in the firewall log is 14 blocks long and the
> local system in question has a MAC address 6 blocks long according to
> ifconfig, but the 6 blocks from ifconfig do match 6 of the blocks
> reported by the firewall.
> 
> Does this make sense to anyone?

Does not make sense to me, sorry.  :-(

Have you tried running the script on lsof instead?


> I installed and ran rkhunter and this was the only warning I couldn't
> disregard:
> 
> Warning: The command '/usr/sbin/rkhunter' has been replaced and is not
> a script: /usr/sbin/rkhunter: POSIX shell script, ASCII text
> executable, with very long lines

This warning comes up the first time after rkhunter runs --update for its .dat 
files.  I don't know why this is so - but I have noticed it happening for the 
last couple of versions at least.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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