Re: world readable log files and /etc/ files

2002-04-29 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Monday, 2002-04-29 at 02:40:57 +1000, Ian Cumming wrote: I was just cleaning up after rebuilding a machine, and I decided to take a look at the log file and /etc permissions. Which release? Woody? I was quite alarmed. There seem to be many files with world readable permissions, which

Re: world readable log files and /etc/ files

2002-04-29 Thread Steve Meyer
It is also important to remember not to chown log files. If you do this you could run into problems. The proccess that writes the file may not be able too. From: Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: world readable log files and /etc/ files Date: Sun, 28 Apr

A Linux version of system and network monitoring?

2002-04-29 Thread Crawford Rainwater
Folks, Does anyone know of a Linux based system and network monitoring program out there? Similar to Tivoli or HP OpenView, preferably under GPL and free? If so, links and such would be great. This would be used to monitor a remote system being up or down along with potentially UPS networked

Re: world readable log files and /etc/ files

2002-04-29 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Monday, 2002-04-29 at 02:40:57 +1000, Ian Cumming wrote: I was just cleaning up after rebuilding a machine, and I decided to take a look at the log file and /etc permissions. Which release? Woody? I was quite alarmed. There seem to be many files with world readable permissions, which