On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:41:54 +1300, "C. Falconer" writes: >At 11:15 AM 11/28/00 +0100, you wrote: >> > Is there an appropriate >> >selection of Debian packages for this? >> >>I wouldn´t know of one. > >I have an old serial terminal plugged into a null modem cable. It sits >just to the left of my main monitor and in syslog.conf I have >*.* /dev/ttys1 > >So all syslogd output for all machines is displayed on it.
That´s great for general purposes alone, but it doesn´t mail you and say: "hey, someone just port-scanned you" or the like. and that´s what I think Mario had in mind. >All my linux boxes run tcplogd which logs connections - its not the >greatest software around, but does okay. Simple plain old remote syslogging is a great thing, but has it´s limits also. &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | KPNQwest/AT | Diefenbachg. 35, A-1150 /
