OT: Re: [TriLUG] strange happenings - self booting server?

[Cristobal Palmer]

So the backstory is that we (Brian + Cerient) ate lunch, and I told
Brian about this... *ahem* ...friend of mine who insisted to me that a
router is always a firewall. When I say insisted, I mean he followed
me after I'd gotten up and left the room. I mean he emailed me the
next morning to follow up on his insistence.

I... uhh... have some weird friends. Seriously though, get a good
firewall everybody. The internets are dangerous.

Vice-chair-ily yours,
CMP

On 4/13/06, Brian Bell <bbell at kneecap.net> wrote:
> Here's an interesting one...
>
> Got home tonight from dinner and found that the PowerEdge1550 sitting in
> my office was running... and had been up for 2hr 43 min.    Its running
> Ubuntu 5.10 (breezy)
>
> It was definitely OFF when I left.   I had shut it down late last night
> (midnight) as you can see in the log.  but for whatever reason - at
> 8:03pm  it "restarted"
>
> /var/log/messages says:
>
> ---- start log snippet ----
> Apr 13 00:50:44 localhost shutdown[6398]: shutting down for system halt
> Apr 13 00:50:49 localhost kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
> Apr 13 00:50:49 localhost kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
> Apr 13 00:50:49 localhost exiting on signal 15
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost syslogd 1.4.1#17ubuntu3: restart.
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.12-10-386
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: Loaded 29010 symbols from
> /boot/System.map-2.6.12-10-386.
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.12.
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel
> modules not enabled.
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: it even in supervisor mode... Ok.
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: [4294669.770000] Security Framework
> v1.0.0 initialized
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: [4294669.770000] SELinux:  Disabled at
> boot.
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: [4294669.770000] Mount-cache hash
> table entries: 512
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: [4294669.770000] CPU: L1 I cache: 16K,
> L1 D cache: 16K
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: [4294669.770000] CPU: L2 cache: 256K
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: [4294669.770000] CPU: Intel Pentium
> III (Coppermine) stepping 06
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: [4294669.770000] Enabling fast FPU
> save and restore... done.
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: [4294669.770000] Enabling unmasked
> SIMD FPU exception support... done.
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: [4294669.770000] Checking 'hlt'
> instruction... OK.
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: [4294669.774000] Checking for popad
> bug... OK.
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: [4294669.774000] checking if image is
> initramfs... it is
> Apr 13 20:03:17 localhost kernel: [4294670.578000] Freeing initrd
> memory: 5136k freed
> ... and so on ... normal bootup proceeds from here .....
> ---- end log snippet ----
>
> Any thoughts?  I thought about a magic packet, but I don't think the
> BIOS is set for Wake on LAN.   Plus, it's behind my Linksys - and
> everyone knows that a router is a firewall right?? :)   (so say the
> Cerient boys)  No seriously, it's behind a firewall and there are no
> ports forwarded to it, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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> bbell at kneecap.net
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Cristobal M. Palmer
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