-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 Linux kernel 2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk 2 users, load average: 1.03, 0.81, 0.40 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc iD8DBQE/rakGIBT1264ScBURArdvAJ4pD+6ufqcr4YPHFEej6wvxF1QgVQCffFfy 41RxlKVATWUgBTFuVt4OAnA= =iOEu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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