Re: weird messages in syslog
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:09:10PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote:
>
> I have the following in syslog (and in /var/log/messages):
>
> Nov 20 01:18:12 localhost SERVER[21311]: Dispatch_input: bad request
> line
> 'BBÜóÿ¿Ýóÿ¿Þóÿ¿ßóÿ¿XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%.156u%300$n%.21u%301$nsecurity%302$n%.192u%303$n\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220
>
> and so on and so on and so on.
I've occasionally been getting something similar. I think I've traced
mine to the printer -- even though (or maybe because) it's turned off.
Check /var/log/lpr.log.
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