Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:02:54 +0000 From: Kerberus <kerberus@inetu.net> To: Jon Bailey <jonb@matchlogic.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'Jerry Raynor'" <jerryr@ComCAT.COM> Subject: Re: daily security check output Message-ID: <36E697AE.8EECCB01@inetu.net> References: <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC0301FEF3F0@HOUSTON>
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your about close on this, but id notice it is a chat cgi, probably perl based and it can wreak havoc on some systems,to fiund the culprit try find / -name "chat.cgi" -print its probably going to turn up in /home/someuser ??? and ave a look at the code, or use perl in debug mode to see what is causing it to bail. if its perl Jon Bailey wrote: > Jerry, > A segfault is a "bad thing", only as much as meaning "it crashed". It's > the same thing as a General Protection Fault in Windows, basically, a > program for some reason made an attempt to access part of memory, or > resources, which it was not allowed to (It tried to work outside of its > "segment"), and as a result the OS terminated it, and logged the message. > > This isn't an attack, just a program crashing. :-) > > -jon > > P.s. (If I'm not correct on this, ppl, please correct me. <G>) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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