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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] plenty of strange sshd-logs... what does it mean?
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:11:27
Message-Id: 201102220119.41879.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] plenty of strange sshd-logs... what does it mean? by Jarry
1 Jarry writes:
2
3 > I just noticed my /var/log/sshd.log is suddenly somehow big.
4 >
5 > After checking it out I have found a lot of messages like this:
6 > > 2011-02-21T03:49:21+00:00 obelix sshd[19767]: SSH: Server;Ltype:
7 > > Version;Remote: my.ip.add.ress-56254;Protocol: 2.0;Client:
8 > > OpenSSH_5.8p1-hpn13v10
9 >
10 > This message was recorded on 2011-02-14T17:45:24+00:00 for
11 > the first time, and since then exactly every 2 minutes.
12 > I think it was the day when I updated to openssh-5.6-p1-r2.
13 >
14 > So first of all, what does the message mean? And next,
15 > how can I turn it off, or at least reduce its frequency?
16
17 Now that you mention it, I see the same messages. This also started
18 happening since I upgraded to openssh-5.8_p1-r1.
19 But I have them only when someone connnects to my server, not every two
20 minutes.
21
22 Wonko