Unaddresed possibilities do include:
1. That you somehow were tricked into downloading and installing a
trojan app on the Slackware host. This is unlikely if you've stuck to
"official" Slackware update sites, and not even all that likely if
you've downloaded the sourcve of well-known apps from their sites and
installed them. But if you installed anything obscure, consider it
carefully.
I'll check that out.
2. You don't say what the other system is, so I'll assume the worst,
that it runs Windows.
Mandrake 9.0. There's a WinXP installation on it but I haven't run it for
months.
3. The Coyote firewall/router may have been compromised. I haven't
looked at Coyote for years, so I don't know if it is keeping up with
security patches. How risky this is depends on what the firewall/router
runs, but risk candidates include kernel-level problems, BIND problems,
ssh problems ... that's what I can think of offhand.
I'll check that out too.
'stderr is not a tty - where are you?'
With xdm, there is no console to map them to, so an xdm start **might**
generate that sort of message (does your xdm have a small window,
probably in the lower right, that logs info?
No
if not, this guess gets more
convincing). Or they might be an old leftover of some time when that
userid tried to start X in some way that did not work. But the really
odd thing is that there is no reason why STDERR *should* be a tty; it is
common to redirect STDERR to a file (in fact, it is a common practice
when debugging X problems). So the message is, in a way, objecting to a
commonplace practice.
More info:
cat lastlog:
~?tty30?pts/1(fqdn Mandrake9.0 machine)sh-2.05b$
The file is 292292 bytes. This message could have something to do with a
tunnel I was trying at a time when the Slackware host was running a
different (Suse) installation. Right?
cat faillog:
pts/0ü
?tty5
1/4?
(The 1/4 actually appears in small script without the slash). The file is
24024 bytes.
Translation anyone?
TIA,
Andrew
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