Re: tiger message I don't understand

[Bert Knabe <bert.knabe () lubbockonline com>]

It looks like an unknown (or unnamed) process is trying to use IPv6  
for something. Are any applications or processes generating errors?  
If not, then whatever is listening is getting an acceptable result.

It also looks like whatever it is doing is something tagged as  
dangerous (hence the WARN), so turning off IPv6 might be a good  
suggestion. If nothing screams, the listener may be something you  
don't want running, anyway. If something does, you probably have  
found the source of your error. But you should probably make sure  
there's nothing critical running that requires IPv6. I don't know of  
anything that does, but there's a lot I don't know.


Bert Knabe
Technician
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
806-766-2158


On Feb 11, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Glenn English wrote:

> On Feb 11, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Dixon, Wayne wrote:
>
> > Do you mean Tiger as in Mac OS X 10.4?
>
> I'm really sorry, Wayne, to have left out useful info. It's the  
> tiger security scanner scripts from Texas A&M, running on Debian Etch.
>
> To repeat the messages I don't understand and would like help  
> decyphering:
>
> > # Checking listening processes
> > OLD: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket  
> > (udp6 on fe80 interface) is run by 7552.
> > OLD: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket  
> > (udp6 on interface) is run by 6913.
> > OLD: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket  
> > (udp6 on interface) is run by 7545.
> > OLD: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket  
> > (udp6 on interface) is run by 7551.
> > NEW: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket  
> > (udp6 on fe80 interface) is run by 7373.
> > NEW: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket  
> > (udp6 on interface) is run by 24444.
> > NEW: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket  
> > (udp6 on interface) is run by 6649.
> > NEW: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket  
> > (udp6 on interface) is run by 7356.
> > NEW: --WARN-- [lin003w] The process `' is listening on socket  
> > (udp6 on interface) is run by 7371.
>
>
> --
> Glenn English
> ghe () slsware com