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Re: iplogger is crashing my computer



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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote:

> 	I am running 2.1 with a 2.2.13 kernel on my Thinkpad 390E in a
> network environment using DHCP.  Today, oddly, I was informed while
> attempting to open an x terminal that my system was temporarily out of
> resources.
> 	I did a little research and it turns out that some processes
> called "tcplogd" were strangling my computer.  Something being run by a
> program called iplogger.  Can anyone tell me a little more about this
> program?  How can I prevent this from using all of my resources in the
> future?

tcplogd and iplogger are used to log connection attempts to your computer.
There are known security problems related to it.  It's probably not a good
thing to run under any circumstances.  You should uninstall it and replace
it with ippl, which does about the same thing, but in a more sane way.
Since you're running slink, you should get the ippl sources from potato if
you want to run it.

noah

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