On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Saturday 18 April 2009 10:54:30 jtd wrote:
> > > How do I find out what is being downloaded ? or what program is the
> > > guilty one ?
> >
> > assuming you have one nic connected to the modem
> >
> > tcpdump -vv -i eth0
> > will dump all packets passing thru eth0
>
> maybe somewhere he has told some package to automatically update itself? Or
> is
> someone trying a brute force attempt to ssh into the system? shutting down
> sshd - if it is running - may help. /var/log/messages would normally show
> attempts at ssh login.
> --
> regards
> Kenneth Gonsalves
There's nothing in /var/log/messages. I always have a tail -f running on
it. I'm also running arno's iptables firewall with no changes in the last
couple of months.
regards,
Sharukh
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