Re: [LIH] tools for hacking on linux

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Raju Mathur saw fit to inform LI that: 

>Sorry, tripwire is for checking integrity of system files, and anyway
>newer versions are commercial now.  There is a free clone being
>developed.  What you're looking for, however, is portsentry, which
>recognises portscans and blocks offenders.

my bad.

>Question: if I block off portmapper, or switch it off, what do I lose?

nil, ideally.

>Another sexy usility is Colorlog.pl, which highlights (seemingly)
>important system messages.

can you give me a url please?  or hell, google will prolly find it ;)

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