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Date:      Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:34:03 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Spontaneous reboot mystery
Message-ID:  <20020117193403.A25576@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.43.0201181437570.1452-100000@den2>; from juha@saarinen.org on Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:42:14PM %2B1300
References:  <Pine.WNT.4.43.0201181437570.1452-100000@den2>

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:42:14PM +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> I have a remote server that has started rebooting itself for no apparent
> reason. It looks like a controlled shutdown:

Could be a Linux binary which has lost its ELF branding and is being
treated as a FreeBSD binary.  One of the common Linux syscalls has the
same syscall number as reboot() under FreeBSD.

Kris

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