Log check reports - what's going on?

[bob parker <bob_parker@ozonline.com.au>]

Here is an excerpt from the head of my hourly log check report.
It usually just flags the odd authentication failure, quite often my own 
mis-spelling of a password or failure to access cdrom etc.

But now I'm getting heaps of the following messages every hour.

What next please?

Bob Parker


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Possible Security Violations
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Jul 29 18:53:47 debian inetd[20208]: execv /usr/sbin/tcpd: Permission denied
Jul 29 18:53:48 debian inetd[20209]: execv /usr/sbin/tcpd: Permission denied
Jul 29 18:53:52 debian inetd[20210]: execv /usr/sbin/tcpd: Permission denied

Unusual System Events
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Jul 29 18:02:11 debian pppd[19124]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x27 
magic=0xf37beb2b cb c2 38 96]
Jul 29 18:02:11 debian pppd[19124]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x27 
magic=0x2cff1c87 cb c2 38 96]
Jul 29 18:02:21 debian pppd[19124]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x28 
magic=0xf37beb2b cb c2 38 96]
Jul 29 18:02:21 debian pppd[19124]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x28 
magic=0x2cff1c87 cb c2 38 96]
Jul 29 18:02:29 debian pppd[19124]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1b 
magic=0x2cff1c87]
Jul 29 18:02:29 debian pppd[19124]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1b 
magic=0xf37beb2b]
Jul 29 18:02:31 debian pppd[19124]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x29 
magic=0xf37beb2b cb c2 38 96]
Jul 29 18:02:31 debian pppd[19124]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x29 
magic=0x2cff1c87 cb c2 38 96]