hack attempt on my server...What do you do about this?

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 19 November 2004 08:15, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>John Dangler wrote:
>>Clifford~
>>Thanks for the reply.
>>rpm-qa|grep logwatch reveals:
>>logwatch-5.1.3
>>
>>I haven't started looking at the 'root' mail yet, since I haven't
>> figured a way to get the email client to read the root from the
>> local system. I did find the man page on logwatch and am reading
>> up on it.
>>
>>Thanks for the tip!
>
>If you are doing any kind of sys admin work make sure you read your
> root mail on a daily basis. I recommend mutt to do this.
> alternatively logwatch and programs like those have a configuration
> setting to mail the logs into any arbitrary email id. set those and
> read your mail on a regular basis
>regards
>Rahul Sundaram

Duh, I get roots mail with kmail, just setup another src in the 
configs.

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