Who? Me?? Attacked???
Junk
junk at therobinsonfamily.net
Tue Apr 23 16:44:33 UTC 2013
On 23 Apr 2013, at 17:10, Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:40:19 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> [....]
>> The only thing worse than a poorly asked question is a cryptic answer.
>
> OK, first off, I'm the OP.
>
> I suppose I should be flattered at being addressed as if I were
> an Alpha Plus Technoid; but I'm not one. I'm just an old twice-retired
> bookworm, running Fedora because there's more and better help online for
> it than for anything else I've tried (most of the well-known distros),
> and because I began back in '98 with RedHat. I can't imagine anything I
> have being of interest to an intruder.
>
Your right. They probably aren't interested in what you have. They might be interested in taking over your machine as part of a botnet though. A large amount of attacks are now automated against wide ranges of devices
> All the replies in this thread so far have been way over my head.
> The one thing I gather some of you want is the error message from SEL,
> verbatim. I don't have it; I presume it's in some log somewhere, but I
> have no idea how to find that log.
>
Try
sealert -a /var/log/audit/audit.log
Or
grep setroubleshoot /var/log/messages
There will have been a full report in the graphical tool that initially warned you but these should give the same result.
Junk
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