[gentoo-user] Had a peak in /var/log and there is a telnet dir

[Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au>]

Hi all,
	I don't run telnet at all. I don't even have it installed on my machine
yet tonight I had a look in /var/lib to try and find a reason as to why
something else is failing and lo and behold there is a telnet dir.
Having a look inside shows:

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bluey telnet # pwd
/var/log/telnet
bluey telnet # ls -la
total 48
drwx------  2 root root 4096 Jul  2 14:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 8192 Jul 28 22:03 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  145 Jul  2 14:58 current
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  145 May  4 21:07 log-2014-05-12-11:22:05
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  372 May 12 19:22 log-2014-05-26-11:54:56
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  145 May 26 19:54 log-2014-06-13-04:25:41
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  145 Jun 13 12:25 log-2014-06-30-10:39:20
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  513 Jun 30 22:09 log-2014-07-02-06:58:34
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   11 Jul  2 14:58 .timestamp
bluey telnet #
bluey telnet # telnet
bash: telnet: command not found

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Looking inside one of these files reveals:

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bluey telnet # cat log-2014-05-26-11\:54\:56
May 12 19:22:05 [login] pam_unix(login:auth): authentication failure;
logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=/dev/tty1 ruser= rhost=  user=root
May 12 19:22:07 [login] FAILED LOGIN (1) on '/dev/tty1' FOR 'root',
Authentication failure
May 12 19:22:15 [login] pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user
root by LOGIN(uid=0)
May 12 19:22:15 [login] ROOT LOGIN  on '/dev/tty1'

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Sorry for the bad wrapping, each new line starts with "May 12..."

	Does anyone have any ideas as to why there is a telnet dir with
something in it on my machine???? Does anyone know of another app that
might for some bizarre reason, create a telnet dir?????

	Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,

		Andrew