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From: Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Had a peak in /var/log and there is a telnet dir
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:45:22
Message-Id: 53D661FE.7050006@wht.com.au
1 Hi all,
2 I don't run telnet at all. I don't even have it installed on my machine
3 yet tonight I had a look in /var/lib to try and find a reason as to why
4 something else is failing and lo and behold there is a telnet dir.
5 Having a look inside shows:
6
7 ******************
8
9 bluey telnet # pwd
10 /var/log/telnet
11 bluey telnet # ls -la
12 total 48
13 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 2 14:58 .
14 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 8192 Jul 28 22:03 ..
15 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 145 Jul 2 14:58 current
16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 145 May 4 21:07 log-2014-05-12-11:22:05
17 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 372 May 12 19:22 log-2014-05-26-11:54:56
18 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 145 May 26 19:54 log-2014-06-13-04:25:41
19 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 145 Jun 13 12:25 log-2014-06-30-10:39:20
20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 513 Jun 30 22:09 log-2014-07-02-06:58:34
21 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11 Jul 2 14:58 .timestamp
22 bluey telnet #
23 bluey telnet # telnet
24 bash: telnet: command not found
25
26 ******************
27
28 Looking inside one of these files reveals:
29
30 ******************
31
32 bluey telnet # cat log-2014-05-26-11\:54\:56
33 May 12 19:22:05 [login] pam_unix(login:auth): authentication failure;
34 logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=/dev/tty1 ruser= rhost= user=root
35 May 12 19:22:07 [login] FAILED LOGIN (1) on '/dev/tty1' FOR 'root',
36 Authentication failure
37 May 12 19:22:15 [login] pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user
38 root by LOGIN(uid=0)
39 May 12 19:22:15 [login] ROOT LOGIN on '/dev/tty1'
40
41 ******************
42
43 Sorry for the bad wrapping, each new line starts with "May 12..."
44
45 Does anyone have any ideas as to why there is a telnet dir with
46 something in it on my machine???? Does anyone know of another app that
47 might for some bizarre reason, create a telnet dir?????
48
49 Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
50
51 Andrew

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Re: [gentoo-user] Had a peak in /var/log and there is a telnet dir Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>