From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Douglass Subject: Re: Strangness in debug and sylog: @@@@@@@@@ Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 15:53:09 -0700 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020529225309.GB22125@whack.org> References: <200205291444.AA100794664@wcox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200205291444.AA100794664@wcox.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Jackson Cc: Linux-Admin Looks like someone may have tried to buffer overflow your box. -sdouglas On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:44:01PM -0600, David Jackson wrote: David> This is kinkd of iteresting? My Debian "woody" locked up tighter David> than a drum while connected to my ISP, and I had to power cycle it? David> David> Debug and syslog had this in it: David> David> May 29 14:32:36 dabean pppd[1667]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x7 magic=0x678a818c] David> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ David> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ David> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^ David> David> Any ideas what this means, and where else can I look pin point the cause. David> David> David> David David> David> - David> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in David> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org David> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html