> 2. What real-time alert system are available to notify users of security > problems as they occur.? (Most of our people are Window refugees and are used > to products like ZoneAlarm.) I've looked at apps such as firestarter, but > need the opinions of others. >
if on the network then snort (www.snort.org). if host based LIDS (www.lids.org) if you want a "kind of zone alarm" for linux then portsentry (though I haven't used it so I might be wrong) might be worth looking at. However iplog is good if combined with logwatch for more realtime alerts (but this is limited as to what it will do) http://freshmeat.net/ is a good place to look the above should give the basis to build a "real time" alerting system Q -- ##################### Quentyn Taylor Sysadmin - Fotango ##################### According to the obituary notices, a mean and unimportant person never dies.
