From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 19:15:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bakchos.dionysia.org (dsl-64-34-196-165.telocity.com [64.34.196.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A17F37B71B for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:15:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Dionysos@Dionysia.org) Received: from bakchos.dionysia.org (bakchos.dionysia.org [64.34.196.165]) by bakchos.dionysia.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B07198B1 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 22:22:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 22:22:52 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Delaney To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Freaky message in /var/log/messages Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all Lately I've been getting this very bizarre message sent to the console and put in /var/log/messages. Here it is: Mar 29 21:58:47 bakchos rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat: ^Xw^??^Xw^??^Yw^??^Yw^??^Zw^??^Zw^??^[w^??^[w^??%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x% 8x%8x%8x%8x%236x%n%137x%n%10x%n%192x%n^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P ^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P ^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P ^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P ^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P ^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P ^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P ^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P ^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P ^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P ^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P ^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P ^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P ^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^P ^P^P^P^P That's it. The whole thing in its glorious entirety! (All of that is actually on one line in the file.) Anyone have any idea what the hell that's all about? :-) Thanks a lot. -- Dan ________________________________________________________________________ Dionysos@Dionysia.org Daniel G. Delaney www.Dionysia.org/~dionysos/ PGP Public Key: /~dionysos/pgp.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A king's castle is his home. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message