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If you are seeing a lot of these, it may be because someone is scanning your machine looking for open ports. This is an example:
Jan 24 16:54:30 scobox telnetd[2843]: ttloop: peer died: Unknown error Jan 24 16:59:31 scobox telnetd[2844]: ttloop: peer died: Unknown error Jan 24 17:04:36 scobox telnetd[2845]: ttloop: peer died: Unknown error Jan 24 17:09:31 scobox telnetd[2851]: ttloop: peer died: Unknown error Jan 24 17:14:31 scobox telnetd[2860]: ttloop: peer died: Unknown error Jan 24 17:19:32 scobox telnetd[2861]: ttloop: peer died: Unknown error Jan 24 17:24:32 scobox telnetd[2899]: ttloop: peer died: Unknown error Jan 24 17:29:31 scobox telnetd[2902]: ttloop: peer died: Unknown error Jan 24 17:34:32 scobox telnetd[2912]: ttloop: peer died: Unknown error Jan 24 17:39:32 scobox telnetd[2927]: ttloop: peer died: Unknown error
It could also just be a bad line.. look for failing telnets:
#!/bin/sh while :; do netstat -n -p tcp | fgrep '.23 ' | sed "/ESTABLISHED/d" sleep 5 done
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