Re: Devices created automatically -- MIDRANGE-L

Problem has discovered.  We have remote users that dial in to access our
AS/400.  Well last Friday was Good Friday and we all left the office at
12noon.  We shut the modem off for our remote users so that they could not
dial in because we wanted to start our backup processing =) lol.  If they
dialed in it would screw up our backup processsing.  They discovered that
the line was down 3 hours after we shut it off.  So to be notifed sooner if
the line ever goes down again..........a programmer started some telnet
session on a scheduler to run ever 5 minutes to keep hitting the line to see
if it is good or bad.  Once the check was completed, the telnet session
would issue the command "quit".  What a headache that was.  Thanks for all
your help.  Have a good day.

Frank W. Kany IV

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank W. Kany IV" <frank.kany@burr-reid.org>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:17 AM
Subject: Devices created automatically


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> Devices are being created automatically every 5 to 10 minutes on our
AS/400 (V4R3).  We have no idea how this is happening.  This only started
happening for the past 2 days.  We delete these devices and they come right
back.  Email me directly if you have any questions:
frank.kany@burr-reid.org
>
> This is what the devices look like:
> ================================================  Device
Type        Text
>  QPADEV000B   V100        Device created for S1029348.
> QPADEV000C   V100        Device created for S1029348.
> QPADEV000D  V100        Device created for S1029348.
> QPADEV000F   V100        Device created for S1029348.
> QPADEV0001   V100        Device created for S1029348.
> QPADEV0002   V100        Device created for S1029348.
> QPADEV0003   V100        Device created for S1029348.
> QPADEV0004   V100        Device created for S1029348.
>
> We don't even have a user named "quit"
> ================================================
> Message ID . . . . . . :   CPF1397
> Date sent  . . . . . . :   04/02/02      Time sent  . . . . . . :
09:34:03
>
> Message . . . . :   Subsystem QINTER varied off work station QPADEV000D
for
>   user QUIT.
>
> Cause . . . . . :   The maximum number of sign on attempts specified by
system
>   value QMAXSIGN has been reached.  The device has been varied off for
>   security reasons.
> Recovery  . . . :   After checking with your security officer, vary the
device
>   on using the Vary Configuration (VRYCFG) command.
>
> Hope this information helps.
> =================================================
Display Device Description
>
> Device description . . . . . . . . :   QPADEV000D
> Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *BASIC
> Category of device . . . . . . . . :   *DSP
>
> Device class . . . . . . . . . . . :   *VRT
> Device type  . . . . . . . . . . . :   V100
> Device model . . . . . . . . . . . :   *ASCII
> Emulated twinaxial device  . . . . :   3196A2
> Online at IPL  . . . . . . . . . . :   *NO
> Attached controller  . . . . . . . :   QPACTL01
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