sam wrote: > I've been getting LOTS of messages like the below in the daily log, and > from all indications, it appears to all be related to the cpu; > the machine is just over a year old, and was the old vortex.wa4phy;net > server from the downtown co-lo site. Aside from huge log files, and > lots of other fluff, numerous problems of other nature have started > cropping up. Anyone have any suggestions as to what to do besides make > a boat anchor out of it? It's all greek to me, so I'm totally at the > mercy of those folks who understand the bits and bites (lit) that have > run amok in things. Any suggestions as a possible fault other than the > cpu just becoming more toasty brown? :) Those messages don't look particularly bad, is the system crashing or something? It seems like some sort of packet logging, perhaps iptables log rules or something? I get messages like this in my logs all the time, no harm done: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:68:2f:4a:00:0b:bf:73:84:1b:08:00 SRC=125.89.73.173 DST=209.90.228.140 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=104 ID=256 PROTO=TCP SPT=6000 DPT=3306 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:68:2f:4a:00:0b:bf:73:84:1b:08:00 SRC=74.160.133.83 DST=209.90.228.140 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=14491 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4664 DPT=139 WINDOW=64512 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:68:2f:4a:00:0b:bf:73:84:1b:08:00 SRC=74.160.133.83 DST=209.90.228.140 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=15210 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4664 DPT=139 WINDOW=64512 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:68:2f:4a:00:0b:bf:73:84:1b:08:00 SRC=95.67.143.212 DST=209.90.228.140 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=109 ID=6209 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4604 DPT=139 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:68:2f:4a:00:0b:bf:73:84:1b:08:00 SRC=95.67.143.212 DST=209.90.228.140 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=109 ID=6884 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4604 DPT=139 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:68:2f:4a:00:0b:bf:73:84:1b:08:00 SRC=207.183.171.254 DST=209.90.228.140 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=51 ID=1415 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=14669 DPT=139 WINDOW=60352 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:68:2f:4a:00:0b:bf:73:84:1b:08:00 SRC=207.183.171.254 DST=209.90.228.140 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=51 ID=2157 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=14669 DPT=139 WINDOW=60352 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 nate