the cron part would actually need to call a script. I believe what you would do is setup a cron on both sides, tar the files, into one, file have sftp (or even ssh copy) grab the file and decompress on the archiving machine.
as for cron itself, man cron is extremely informative, and I'm not being a smart ass, it is very thorough. joey ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Missing Logs ??? > > About your third question: I really don't think > > anyone is erasing your log files. But if you really > > are paranoid about some accessing your firewall, you > > can write-protect your floppies so that the intruder > > can't really change your configuration permanently. A > > little paranoia is a healthy thing. > > I don't think someone is really erasing them either because as I had stated, > I had a friend run nmap & he couldn't find anything so I'm closed to most of > the script kiddies. And as to write-protecting the floppies, I do & for > actually making changes to the floppies... because the floppy drives on my > leaf box are of an older variety they don't play nice with the 1680 format, > they can read it, but they tear up the disk writing it. All leaf disks are > now written only on my programming computer with a much newer floppy drive > that plays nice with 1680. This also prevents the possibilty of someone > hacking the firewall & changing things while I'm trying to save stuff to the > floppy (if you really want to be that paranoid). > > > To get to your log files, you will need the sftp.lrp > > module. Configure it then save your changes to your > > floppies. On another machine set up a cron job to > > routinely sftp into your firewall and get the logs. > > Ok, sounds good... I'm guessing this goes along with the ssh.lrp package > (which I've already set up) & I'm guessing sftp also comes in the ssh > package in most distros? Now all I need is a newbie help file on setting up > a cron job... any suggestions? :) > > > Minh > > thanks much > Patrick > > > [original message snipped] > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T > handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
