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Weird log entries

GoofKing

GoofKing

All your bases are belong to us
In my auth.log I'm getting these entries:

Code: 
exim4: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "Hostname.Home IN AAAA", got type "A"

But I'm not a server and I'm sure I'm not running any file sharing or mysql or anything like that :/ I'm wondering if it's my router or someone is trying to connect to my computer or something.

Also, why do I have a lot of ssh key rings in my .cache directory ? I shouldn't have that many as I don't use ssh but I think someone is trying to connect remotely to my machine.
 
I'm not claiming expertise on this, but.
(1) My machine actually does run apache and mysql and running cd /var/logs && grep exim4 doesn't return a single for me. Could you run in terminal the command whereis exim4 and which exim4 and post the output here?
(2) When I run cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts only about 10 lines are returned. I do use ssh though, and that corresponds roughly to the number of different hosts I have connected to. You might want to clean this cached list - you could edit the known_hosts and remove all entries.
 
23andaspie said:
I'm not claiming expertise on this, but.
(1) My machine actually does run apache and mysql and running cd /var/logs && grep exim4 doesn't return a single for me. Could you run in terminal the command whereis exim4 and which exim4 and post the output here?
(2) When I run cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts only about 10 lines are returned. I do use ssh though, and that corresponds roughly to the number of different hosts I have connected to. You might want to clean this cached list - you could edit the known_hosts and remove all entries.
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the first command outputs this

Code: 
exim4: /usr/sbin/exim4 /etc/exim4 /usr/lib/exim4 /usr/share/man/man8/exim4.8.gz

and the second one doesn't output anything at all, as for the known ssh host list. it doesn't appear to exist neither.
 
GoofKing said:
the first command outputs this

Code: 
exim4: /usr/sbin/exim4 /etc/exim4 /usr/lib/exim4 /usr/share/man/man8/exim4.8.gz

and the second one doesn't output anything at all, as for the known ssh host list. it doesn't appear to exist neither.
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1. Do you need the Exim Internet Mailer? If not, you can run sudo apt-get purge exim4 if you're running Debian/Ubuntu.
2. Can you check to see if the .ssh directory even exists: ls -la ~/.ssh
 
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