Martinez, Michael - CSREES/ISTM wrote: > 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 >
Thanks. I think I'll give the tripwire a shot. -- Regards, Shane _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
