not wanting to speak for someone else, but I'm pretty sure it was sarcasm.

On March 5, 2024 8:21:40 AM MST, ofthecentury <ofthecent...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Well, that's not very noice. Where is security?
>
>On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 7:45 PM Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote:
>
>> PID 6504 was my shell.  I've logged off now.
>>
>> What are you expecting here??
>>
>>
>> ofthecentury <ofthecent...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Yes, I'm tcdupming pflog and ALL my dropped packets
>> > reference some PID 6504 that is not found among
>> > the processes that are running. I was actually not fishing
>> > for PIDs, I just saw the PID referenced in the standard
>> > tcpdump output. For forensics I just want to find the link
>> > between PID referenced in tcpdump to the process,
>> > and I cannot, and I believe I should be able to for security.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 7:12 PM Janne Johansson <icepic...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Den tis 5 mars 2024 kl 14:35 skrev ofthecentury <
>> ofthecent...@gmail.com>:
>> > > >
>> > > > Hi, I'm on a fresh install of OpenBSD 7.4.
>> > > > I am watching output of tcpdump and
>> > > > seeing some drops that all reference
>> > > > UID 0, pid 6504. I cannot find that PID
>> > > > among running processes. Does anyone
>> > > > know what is that process and why it's
>> > > > not running but tcpdump references it?
>> > >
>> > > OpenBSD has random pids, so unless you ask about pid 0 or 1, noone can
>> > > divine what process had pid 6504 on your system at that time.
>> > >
>> > > As for this report, it looks like you are tcpdumping pflog in order to
>> > > see "drops" with pids, but since you didn't mention what you ran, it's
>> > > hard to tell. Nor did you state how you looked for pids, perhaps not
>> > > using all the possible options?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
>> > >
>>

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