Subj : bbs shut down http log
To   : DieselMan
From : Deuce
Date : Mon Jun 27 2005 03:06 pm

  Re: bbs shut down http log
  By: DieselMan to All on Mon Jun 27 2005 04:17:00

 > for you that know what you are looking for at approx 2:39 the system was hac
 > for lack of a better word or caused to crash by a buffer overload or whateve
 > I'm a mechanic not an computer expert at all. I assure you i am sober and
 > watched it with my own eyes

I suspect your terminals answerback string was sent to sbbs because of a
character in a bit of logged console data.

specifically, the UNKNOWN USER bit.

Here's how it happened:
1) You were running sbbs in foreground mode from a console that honours the
answerback string
2) An ASCII 5 was sent to the log output which happened to be your terminal.
3) Your terminal returned with an id string that contained at LEAST the chars r
, x, and t in that order.
4) This was sent out by the terminal and therefore recieved by sbbs proper.
5) The t caused termination.

workaround: Run as a daemon, or use a terminal that does nto send an answerback
string.

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