Re: 1.12.5 pserver /var/adm/messages

[Larry Jones]

Mark writes:
> 
> Also, we got about 18 of the following in the /var/adm/messages 
> as well today, again starting with the 1.12.5 upgrade.... no 
> time pattern to these entries.....
> 
> messages:Dec 30 09:29:14 batman cvs[12093]: [ID 666953 
> daemon.notice] bad auth protocol start: EOF
> messages:Dec 30 09:32:42 batman cvs[13517]: [ID 666953 
> daemon.notice] bad auth protocol start: EOF

Typically, that indicates that someone is connecting to the pserver port
and then closing the connection rather than starting the CVS client/
server protocol.  Perhaps you're being port scanned.

> What would really help is having the cvs username (I use a 
> non-root pserver) and the client machine/IP in the messages log 
> for these errors. Hopefully a user and/or machine pattern will 
> show up.

There is no cvs username yet, that would have been sent in the
authorization information that pserver was trying to read when it got
end-of-file instead.  CVS doesn't know anything about client machine
names or IP addresses, that's all handled by [x]inetd.  Perhaps you can
arrange for [x]inetd to log the connections and then correlate the time
stamps.

> Any ideas on how these /var/adm/messages came into play on the 
> pserver upgrade?

Newer releases of CVS tend to do more error checking and reporting than
older releases.

-Larry Jones

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