Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 16:30:17 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Michael Maxwell <drwho@xnet.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sudden crashing? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000107163017.00be7e80@staff.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <20000107152815.A11225@typhoon.xnet.com>
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At 03:28 PM 1/7/00 -0600, Michael Maxwell wrote: >So far, one of my servers, a BSD 3.2-R machine, has mysteriously crashed >twice this week. This machine functions as a gateway and firewall to our >internet connection, so it's the most visible host here. I use ipfw to >block pretty much all the low ports except those we really need, such as >ssh, ntp, smtp, etc... > >I don't see anything in the logs indicating what might have happened. > >Not only that, but ipfw *refuses* to log to syslog on this box!?! My >/etc/syslog.conf is an exact copy of the same file on another machine >which DOES correctly log ipfw. its been a while, but the logging on ipfw had changed at one point. Do you have kern.* /var/log/kernel or something similar in your /etc/syslog.conf file ? ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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