[ale] telnet in secure and auth.log

[Wandered Inn]

Wandered Inn wrote:
> 
> Anyone have any ideas why I'm getting the following in both my secure
> and auth.log files:
> 
> Aug  3 20:15:37 denali xinetd[799]: START: telnet pid=19081
> from=127.0.0.1
> 
> It's very close to every ten minutes.  I just attempted to telnet to one
> of my machines and sure enough this effort was logged in this way.
> There shouldn't be a telnet attempt every 10 minutes though.

My bad here.  Stupid timing, I attempted my telnet at the 10 minute
mark, so it appeared to put an entry in the log.  A second attempt did
not.  Still, ethereal shows nothing going over the interface at that
time.  I'd still like to know what it is though.

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