Well, if the person who got it also killed syslogd (which of course they
would), she wouldn't've noticed until it dialed again.
C
Cynthia J. Dale
Technical Engineer/FAQ maintainer
Red Hat, Inc.
fnord.
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jenn V. wrote:
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:42:12 +1100
> From: Jenn V. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [techtalk] bizarre....
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Sounds like SOMEONE got into your system.
>
> > > Okay, so today I was using my ppp connection for several hours, then we
> > > went to watch Sunday night Fox and came back. I have the command to dial
> > > aliased to include tail -f /var/log/messages. I told it to dial, and it
> > > said "tail: no such file /var/log/messages."
>
> Except that it looks like the problem occured while she was
> offline.
>
> Oh, I admit that it's possible that someone set things up while
> she was online to crash when she next dialled, but that's really
> strange behaviour to find as the result of a hack.
>
>
> Jenn V.
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