Sounds like someone (you?) is running Big Brother to check the status of
your system and it is configured to see if sshd is running.

Jim

On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:54:25AM +0100, Devitt, Karl wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> can anyone explain the cause of this error, entry from syslog;
> Sep  6 09:55:24 eagle sshd[12341]: Bad protocol version identification 'quit
> 
> doesn't seem to stop ssh from working, but this error reoccurs very
> regularly, every 5 minutes
> 
> thanks, karl

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