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[Tim]

Tim:
>> Well, if you are being security minded, logs on the same machine
>> can't be trusted.  Because someone who can break in, can do
>> something to change the logging.  ;-)


Jake Shipton:
> This is true, which is why most of my logs are mailed locally to a
> separate user account which is solely used for mailing, and then
> checked by my mail client, which will then move them via IMAP to my
> Gmail inbox :-).
>  
> Whilst logs could be intercepted prior to being mailed to that
> separate user account and fetched by my mail client, I would receive a
> nearly instant mail on an actual break in attempt (Lets say for sake
> of argument, an SSH Brute Force)

Well, it's more likely a case of stopping something being logged in the
first place, rather than altering logs in transit.  If you were in that
sort of hacked situation.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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