THanks for all who responded to my question.
I check the box and there was no break-in or comprimise, like a few others
said - someone was looking around for a hole.
My ined.conf file has been totally remarked out since day also and nothing
in tmp.
Thakns for telling me about this particular attack.
Dino Amato
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Graeme Fowler wrote:
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> On 06-Mar-2000 Dino Amato wrote:
> > I logged this:
> > Mar 5 15:58:23 monitor tcplogd: ingreslock connection attempt from
> > unknown_at_sleipnir1.cs.ucl.ac.uk
> > what does the ingreslock mean and what was this person trying to do?
>
> Firstly: the ingreslock port was well-used by the shell installed by a
> number of RPC compromises on Solaris (amongst others); as I know only
> too well :(
> I guess the culprit was scanning for previously compromised machines.
>
> Secondly: if you have seen this on other machines, or more frequently
> than the single line above, please report it to:
>
> cert_at_cert.ja.net
>
> They'll deal with it as it's source was a UK university.
>
> - --
> Graeme Fowler
> Network Officer, Infrastructure & Networks Group
> Loughborough University Computing Services
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