oddball syslog entries ....

[Kurt Buff]

AFAICT, someone is banging on your machine.

What's your network environment look like? Are you directly connected
to the Internet, on a corporate network, or is this a home machine
behind a router/firewall?

Kurt

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:01 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>
>
> Over the last couple of days I am seeing some odd (to me) entries in my
> messages file:
>
>
> Oct  2 09:32:18 kabini1 pkg: linux-f10-gtk2-2.14.7_5 deinstalled
> Oct  2 09:32:18 kabini1 pkg: linux-f10-pango-1.28.3_1 deinstalled
> Oct  2 09:32:19 kabini1 pkg: linux-f10-cairo-1.8.0_3 deinstalled
> Oct  2 09:32:19 kabini1 pkg: linux-f10-xorg-libs-7.4_1 deinstalled
> Oct  2 09:32:19 kabini1 pkg: linux-f10-fontconfig-2.6.0_1 deinstalled
> Oct  2 09:32:19 kabini1 pkg: linux-f10-tiff-3.8.2 deinstalled
> Oct  2 09:32:19 kabini1 pkg: linux-f10-atk-1.24.0_1 deinstalled
> Oct  2 09:32:19 kabini1 pkg: linux-f10-expat-2.0.1_1 deinstalled
> Oct  2 09:32:19 kabini1 pkg: linux-f10-jpeg-6b deinstalled
> Oct  2 09:32:19 kabini1 pkg: linux-f10-png-1.2.37_2 deinstalled
> Oct  2 09:32:21 kabini1 pkg: linux_base-f10-10_7 deinstalled
> Oct  2 09:35:47 kabini1 pkg-static: linux_base-c6-6.5_1 installed
> Oct  2 09:39:50 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-atk-1.30.0 installed
> Oct  2 09:39:51 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-expat-2.0.1 installed
> Oct  2 09:39:52 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-fontconfig-2.8.0 installed
> Oct  2 09:39:53 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-png-1.2.49 installed
> Oct  2 09:39:55 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-xorg-libs-7.4 installed
> Oct  2 09:39:56 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-cairo-1.8.8 installed
> Oct  2 09:39:58 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-openssl-1.0.1e installed
> Oct  2 09:39:59 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-libssh2-1.4.2 installed
> Oct  2 09:40:00 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-openldap-2.4.23 installed
> Oct  2 09:40:01 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-curl-7.19.7 installed
> Oct  2 09:40:04 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-jpeg-1.2.1 installed
> Oct  2 09:40:05 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-pango-1.28.1 installed
> Oct  2 09:40:06 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-tiff-3.9.4 installed
> Oct  2 09:40:07 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-gtk2-2.20.1 installed
> Oct  2 09:40:09 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-openssl-compat-0.9.8e installed
> Oct  2 09:40:10 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-cyrus-sasl2-2.1.23 installed
> Oct  2 09:40:11 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-nspr-4.10.0 installed
> Oct  2 09:40:18 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-sqlite-3.6.20 installed
> Oct  2 09:40:19 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-nss-3.16.1 installed
> Oct  2 09:40:20 kabini1 pkg-static: linux-c6-flashplugin-11.2r202.406
> installed
> Oct  5 11:30:22 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 276
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  5 11:30:24 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 239
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  5 11:30:25 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 280
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  5 11:30:26 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 319
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  7 10:41:25 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 276
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  7 10:41:26 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 239
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  7 10:41:27 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 280
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  7 10:41:29 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 319
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  7 14:59:41 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 253
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  7 14:59:42 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 233
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  7 14:59:44 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 265
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  7 14:59:45 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 295
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  7 14:59:47 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 324
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  7 15:03:18 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 253
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  7 15:03:20 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 233
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  7 15:03:21 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 265
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  7 15:03:22 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 295
> to 200 packets/sec
> Oct  7 15:03:24 kabini1 kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 324
> to 200 packets/sec
>
> The stuff from Oct 2 is irrelevant, included for completeness/context. The
> lines about 'Limiting closed port ....' are puzzling to me. Where are they
> coming from ? Problem or chatter ? Enquiring minds wanna know ;-) .... TIA
> for any clues ....
>
>
> --
>
>         William A. Mahaffey III
>
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>
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>          ever devised by man."
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>
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