I was just checking the entry that Wesley needs in his /etc/fstab to get /mnt/cdrom to start up without error, and was grepping for cd in dmesg, when I didn't get the matches I expected.
It seems that I've got on to some list or other, and about a dozen clients out there have been attempting by brute force to break in to my system... 10,000 attempts on my poor ssh daemon since the 11th! That's 2,500 per day on an ihug dsl line. I recommend that anyone out there who allows any kind of access from the outside world check their logs, and make sure that they've got decent passwords, etc in place. My usual ostrich approach may soon become inappropriate! Cheers, Steve. -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
