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dfox wanted us to know:

>when I began to see a few errors in my /var/log/mail/errors file (unknown 
>service tcp/smtp).

That means that the line from /etc/services got deleted:

smtp            25/tcp          mail
smtp            25/udp          mail

>It seems like a catch 22 - if I disable the filters perhaps outbound smtp 
>will work, but if I do that, I'm back to where I was before, and people 
>will start targeting my box again. I counted 72 attempts of portscanning 
>done in less than six hours, and 10 minutes after I restarted httpd I got 
>spurious gets in my apache log files. I think this is how they got into 
>my box in the first place, since I don't do much if any web stuff, and my 
>log files are tiny - the other day they were over a megabyte.

As always, staying on top of updates is priority number one.
- -- 
Blue skies...   Todd    Public key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc
There's a medical term for that:  freakishly dorky.         --Gash
Oh wait, is today cynical Friday?                          --NANOG
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