"Render-Vue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Religiously every day - twice a day we use webmin and check the following > logs:- > > /var/log/messages > /var/log/secure > /var/log/maillog > /var/log/xferlog Like Jim suggested, check out logcheck. Also, if you're not already familiar with some of the basic shell commands, get familiar with logging in through the shell and spend some time working with an online Linux tutorial. If you're looking for something in particular "grep" is pretty handy. Here's an example. grep -a1 -b2 "error" /var/log/mailog | grep -v "steve" The line above returns all lines containing "error" and the line above each of those lines (-a1) and the two lines following each of those lines (-b1) and then excludes any line containing "steve". "man grep" from the shell (SSH, telnet) for more info. Of course, there's plenty more you can do with grep and plenty more commands available which can be piped "|" to additional commands to execute some powerful commands. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/ Visit http://www.goodoverevil.com/ _______________________________________________ cobalt-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
