Subject: Security Issue
To: netbsd-help <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Herzog <mherzog@attbi.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/07/2002 19:55:29
My i386 1.5.3 machine started sending me these alerts a couple
days ago. I have a .screenrc that contains the line:

screen 5 sudo tail -f /var/log/messages

I have 10 screens running within an Xterm.

What could be happening? Sudo and Screen are from pkgsrc and both
are up to date. 

Thanks for any advice.

----- Forwarded message from Matthew Herzog Mherzog <mherzog> -----

Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 16:22:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matthew Herzog Mherzog <mherzog>
To: root
Subject: *** SECURITY information for felt.ne.client2.attbi.com ***

felt.ne.client2.attbi.com : Aug  7 16:21:57 : mherzog : can't mkdir /var/run/sudo: File exists ; TTY=ttyp6 ; PWD=/home/mherzog ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages

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Matthew Herzog

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