BOOBY TRAPS?

Arthur Stephens astephens at ptera.net
Thu Nov 25 00:30:30 UTC 2004


Brand new install on 11/22/04. Connected on our local 192.168.0.x network
on 11/23/04
It was firewalled before being connected.
Could not find anything unusual in the logs.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: BOOBY TRAPS?


> On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 14:57 -0800, Arthur Stephens wrote:
> > Doing a server new install yesterday.
> > Came in this morning and there was this message on the console of my
> > fedora3 box
> >
> > BOOBY TRAPS
> > INIT: version 2.85 reloading
> >
>
> You may safely disregard the "INIT" line. It comes up now and again but
> is entirely harmless. The "booby traps" line I have never seen, but it
> sure as hell does not sound good.
>
> Is this box connected to a network or the Internet? Is it firewalled?
> Did you check the logs? Is it even remotely possible that it has been
> cracked?
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
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