My wiild guess...... "This means people are trying to brute-force your passwords (common on any public-facing server).
It shouldn't cause any harm to clear out this file. One way to reduce this is to change the port for SSH from 22 to something arbitrary. For some additional security, <http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/>you can block login attempts after a certain number of failures. "....>>>>>>>>>. please see this http://serverfault.com/questions/119299/my-var-log-btmp-file-is-huge-what-should-i-do -- -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Free Software Users Group, Thiruvananthapuram" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
