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Date:      Mon, 03 Apr 2000 13:13:57 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        "Rob Snow" <lists@dympna.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Crap in /var/log/messages 
Message-ID:  <71611.954760437@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:22:11 CST." <001201bf9b30$49e8eb00$8200000a@dympna.com> 

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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:22:11 CST, "Rob Snow" wrote:

> Mar 31 10:14:22 basil /kernel: =
> l09asfd09af3434ng0a0934j3409saa0sg09asf043r3q4l009<etc>
> 
> However, that isn't a real good representation of the message as it
> appears to be the entire ASCII set, with things I cannot reporduce on
> the keyboard.

Do you run syslog in a fashion that allows remote users to send log
messages to your host across the network?  Perhaps you need to run
syslog with the -s flag.

Alternatively, there may be a local user trying to find holes in
syslogd?

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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