telnet localhost 22 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. SSH-2.0-SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.5p1 service sshd status As you can see it doesn't give sshd but this crazy characters, in both cases 1628 ? S 0:02 ?a?@°Ó?@? 22871 ? S 0:00 ?a?@°Ó?@? ls -l /usr/sbin/sshd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3963123 sep 16 00:03 /usr/sbin/sshd md5sum /usr/sbin/sshd 1624e238c7d82ffcca3731534a06e9e8 /usr/sbin/sshd They are trying to get in all the time Sinds I changed root password and disabled remote root login, he is still trying to login as root and whatever password Last night after trying to login, cups is started. Is this normal? Sep 21 02:59:24 itact [13797]: LoginGraceTime exceeded. Sep 21 02:59:57 itact [13866]: LoginGraceTime exceeded. Sep 21 03:01:18 itact [14043]: LoginGraceTime exceeded. Sep 21 03:01:42 itact [14093]: LoginGraceTime exceeded. Sep 21 03:02:44 itact [14228]: LoginGraceTime exceeded. Sep 21 03:03:10 itact [14287]: LoginGraceTime exceeded. sep 21 04:02:05 itact cups: cupsd afgesloten succeeded Sep 21 04:02:06 itact modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-188 Sep 21 04:02:07 itact last message repeated 15 times sep 21 04:02:07 itact cups: cupsd start op succeeded