[CentOS] mysterious weekly shutdown

Mon Apr 12 17:31:43 UTC 2010
Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net>

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 13:19 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> This - I wonder if someone's somehow getting in. Anything in
> /var/log/secure for 12:43?

Apr  9 18:13:46 answeringmachine gdm[2965]: pam_unix(gdm:session):
session opened for user freeads by (uid=0)
Apr 10 12:43:49 answeringmachine gdm[2965]: pam_unix(gdm:session):
session closed for user freeads
Apr 10 12:43:53 answeringmachine sshd[2516]: Received signal 15;
terminating.
Apr 10 12:43:53 answeringmachine runuser: pam_unix(runuser:session):
session opened for user frankcox by (uid=0)
Apr 10 12:43:53 answeringmachine runuser: pam_unix(runuser:session):
session closed for user frankcox
Apr 12 09:53:49 answeringmachine sshd[2518]: Server listening on :: port
22.

> Here's a thought: does it have bluetooth enabled? Is it in range to
> talk
> to someone *else's* bluetooth keyboard? Is anyone near enough to shut
> down
> their machine, and/or accidentally yours?

There is no bluetooth or wireless anything on this, other than a
wireless mouse.  Everything else is hard-wired.

> Is this machine hardwired? If so, you do NOT need the avahi-daemon, on
> by
> default, which is intended for a clueless home user to set up a
> network.
> Turn it *off*, and yank the firewall rule that allows it.

Interesting.  I never realized (or thought about) that. I shall do a
bunch of turning-off of avahi-daemon on these machines.
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