From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 11 17:52:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1DD14C80 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 17:52:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA27829; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:46:02 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:46:01 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Stephen A Derdau Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Popper question In-Reply-To: <3711028B.1FF7834D@ne.mediaone.net> 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 On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Stephen A Derdau wrote: > I'm seeing this message on my console . > Does it mean anything that I should guard against Thanks ? > Like someone trying to use my server for spam ? > > Apr 11 06:55:30 sderdau popper[1374]: > @sdn-ar-004ohcincP280.dialsprint.net: -ERR POP EOF received Looks like someone is probing your POP daemon for a possible attempt to break in. IIRC, there was a bug with an older version of popper that would allow a root shell to be spawned. Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Everything in excess, moderation is for monks!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message