Re: Scary syslog entries, random breakage
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 08:38:07PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> was heard to say:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:02:21PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > So I compiled aptitude and libgmp3 on the Hurd, and took a look at rep (it
> > looks like it has an undeclared build-dependency on libtool; at any rate,
> > until I installed libtool the build process died complaining about
> > inter-library dependencies in .la files)
>
> Some versions of libtool are broken on the Hurd. Debian version 1.3.5-2 is
> fixed, and 1.4 should work, too.
I've noticed that some programs compile if I run "libtoolize -f" in their
source directory. What should I do with packages thus produced? ie, can
I upload them, or should I submit a bug, or should I do something else?
> > I'm not an expert in security, but that looks like someone was trying to
> > do something bad.
>
> I see those, too, and I am not connected. It is probably not an attacker,
> but a bug. Although the address is not bogus, the IP options are. (Try
> telnet localhost and check the syslog).
> It is a bug where we don't know the cause. Pfinet is sort of unstable right
> now.
Yeah, I finally decided that it was probably just some weird breakage.
I reinstalled anyway, just because old broken versions of packages and
old disk corruption were piling up..
> > The address in question is some random overseas dialup. I don't know
> > what ftpd was even doing on my system; no package providing it was installed.
>
> It's in "inetutils".
Yeah. I think I may have lost my status file at some point a while back,
and not fully recovered it. Or something.
Daniel
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