Ricardo,

You're seeing the results of logcheck, which is run as part of 
/etc/cron.daily.  logcheck searches the system log files for strings from 
its configuration files, which are in /etc/logcheck/.  The messages are 
classified according to which config file has the matching string.  The 
goal is to alert you about unusual things that occur on your system.

Unfortunately, sometime you get unexpected (and surprising) matches.  For 
example, the word "BAD" is in the violations file.  Since postfix uses 
hexadecimal numbers to identify mail messages, "BAD" can appear in one of 
the numbers.  When this happens (as it has for me), a "violation" warning 
is issued.

So, when you read the warnings, you must interpret them.  You are, after 
all, smarter than the stupid computer and you can do a better job of 
determining if a warning is correct or not.

David

P.S.  If you get lots of false warnings from postfix (or any other 
program), you could add strings to /etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.


At 02:46 PM 9/5/02, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote:


>What could be happening in here?
>I don't understand why "security violations"...
>I use Postfix...
>
>Is it any misconfig (Postifix)?
>
>TIA
>
>Ricardo
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Subject: home.english-quest.com.br 09/05/02:04.02 system check
>Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 04:02:04 -0300
>
>
>Security Violations
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>Sep  5 03:18:04 home  -- root[10079]: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1
>Sep  4 04:50:05 home postfix/qmgr[1643]: 01C5F8AEF3: 
>from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=23291, nrcpt=1 
>(queue active)
>Sep  4 07:03:10 home postfix/cleanup[17463]: 6855B8AEF5: 
>message-id=<038901c253f8$66fbad80$7a0aa8c0@HOC0105>
>Sep  4 08:40:36 home postfix/qmgr[1643]: 4292C8AEF3: 
>from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=27856, nrcpt=1 
>(queue active)
>Sep  4 12:58:55 home postfix/qmgr[1643]: 5781F8AEF3: 
>from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=29357, nrcpt=1 
>(queue active)
>Sep  4 16:34:40 home postfix/qmgr[1643]: AAA8A8AEF7: 
>from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=11719, nrcpt=1 
>(queue active)
>Sep  4 17:26:04 home postfix/cleanup[18630]: 6F0978AEF7: 
>message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sep  4 23:05:31 home postfix/qmgr[1643]: 728568AEF4: 
>from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=30654, nrcpt=1 
>(queue active)
>
>
>
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