Jason, These are really good suggestions and I would have tried them next...but I don't think there's anything wrong with the redhat...I have a dual boot windows system here and I usually use my win2000. I decided, what the heck, try my other OS, win95. There's no ssh client on there but there is ftp. Guess what? Worked like a charm. Then I tried my Win2000 again this morning...worked like a charm...and I've changed nothing since last night! I recently installed a (poor quality) webcam and that may have (i don't know how) screwed up sending out connections. My apologies to you guys for raising an issue before I confirmed it was redhat.
By the way, there are weird files in my /tmp directory...but they are all in an orbit-root directory which I understand is normal GNOME behavior... Thanks for the reply Jason, Kevin P.S. Bye bye webcam...haha Jason Dale wrote: > Hi Kevin > > This does sound very strange indeed ! > > Have you checked the /var/log/messages* files ? one approach would > be to compare older versions of the messages file before you had the > problem to the messages files that you are getting now. If something > is seriously afoot on your system , this file will sometimes tell you > about it. > > You can also check the boot.log files just for the heck of it , but I > doubt if that will help any. > > Use the 'find' command to search for files that were modified within > a certain time , based on when you started noticing the problem. > If there are system files or binaries that you know you did not change , > your system could be infected with a worm or a virus of some kind. > Curious : are there any unusually named hidden files sitting in your > temp directory ? > > Regards , Jason > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Weslowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 5:24 AM > Subject: ftpd and sshd services not responding > > > Hello, > > > > I've been running my Redhat 7.1 now for about 6 months. I have it > configured as my fitewall/router/gateway/WWW server/ftp server/SSHD server. > Whenever I needed to do some work on it, I just connected with my ssh client > from my Windows machine from inside my home network...ftp also used to work > fine. > > Just today, I noticed that I couldn't connect via ftp or ssh anymore. I > haven't changed any configuration on that system since I was able to connect > fine. I've stopped and started all the relevant daemons (sshd, xinetd) to > try to correct it but no luck. I assume the system has somehow been > compromised. > > Also, another weird thing...I'm running Apache 1.3 on it...all http > requests from my windows machine only return the page after about 30-60 > seconds...but they always return, eventually... > > I can ping to the machine fine, if that gives any clues... > > the ftp/ssh logs all report timeouts when trying to connect... > > > > So, I'm down to working at the system console (a drag) until I can get > this straightened out...If anyone has any suggestions on what they think > might have happened or if I can give further debugging clues (provide logs, > give my IP address for testing, etc.), let me know... > > > > Thanks, > > > > Kevin > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seawolf-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
