On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Pira, Joel G. wrote:

> hi,
>
>       this morning my linux box was acting weird. i can't connect to
> squid, so  i tried to log on using ssh. ssh was refused but i kept on trying
> and suddenly i was able to log on for a while. after a few seconds while
> trying to figure out what was happening, i got a read error and
> automatically log out by the system. intermittently i can connect for 2 or 3
> seconds. i was running portsentry, sshd, squid, apache and postfix on a
> mandrake linux 6.2 (needs updating).

If you did not update the security updates of your mandrake 6.2, you have
most probably been hacked, or else something screwey has happened to your
portsentry config.



>
>       do the gurus out there have some ideas?
>
>
> Joel Gatdula Pira
> Faculty, Institute of IT Studies
> University of Asia and the Pacific
> Pearl Drive, Ortigas Center
> Pasig City 1605
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