security compromized?? :-(

1998-03-09 Thread Seif Zadeh Hossein
Hi there, I logged into my ISP last night, and start downloading some files. As it started to take longer than I thought I left it running over night. This morning after I logged out I checked the `messages' file, and to my surprise most of it was deleted. There was only a few lines there; to

Re: security compromized?? :-(

1998-03-09 Thread cs96sjd
Hi there, I logged into my ISP last night, and start downloading some files. As it started to take longer than I thought I left it running over night. This morning after I logged out I checked the `messages' file, and to my surprise most of it was deleted. There was only a few lines

Re: security compromized?? :-(

1998-03-09 Thread Zach Smith
You prolly have your logs rotated by a cron job which is why you have no messages. Go look in your /var/log dir and see how many files are there. Ususally the messsages file gets rotated and appears as messages.1-messages.# As for the syslogd, thats because when the log rotates, the syslogd has