Tripwire is an intrusion detection software. It is generally run once a day (or several times a day) to see if anything on your system has been altered. After it runs, it emails a report to the administrator/root user.
If you want to run an intrustion detection system, then you should use tripwire. Otherwise, you can disable it. To find out how to use the "mail" program, type "man mail" at the prompt. tHis will give you a manual that you can scroll through Michael Martinez System Administrator > -----Original Message----- > From: Shane C Branch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 3:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: mail and tripwire > > > My root account has on the order of 300 email messages all > regarding an > error with tripwire. The error tells me to run > /etc/tripwire/twinstall.sh and/or tripwire --init. > > My first question is what does tripwire do? It appears to > have something > to do with data protection, yes? Do I need it, and if I > don't, how to I > stop it from generating the error message > > My second question is in regard to the mail. I just type > 'mail' at the > prompt to check the messages, is there a more user friendly program? > Console is fine, I just am not to clear on how to navigate > the program > that I launched past discovering that you can hit enter to > see the next > message in the list. > -- > > Regards, > > Shane > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
