On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:24:09 -0400, Stephen Bopple wrote: >I got qpopper working on the RH7.1 box > >I wasn't aware until I ran 'ipchains -L' that someone had setup a >firewalling script on the webhosting box.
Yep, Red Hat started providing a default firewall rule set with 7.x, to protect newbies from just connecting a wide-open, very powerful box to the Internet. Before that, it was too easy to shoot yourself and all your neighbors in the foot. (Script kiddies LOVE to get control of Linux zombies because they're such powerful systems to launch attacks from. They'll share their Windoze zombies but they jealously guard their Linux "acquisitions".) I'd recommend installing the Logwatch package or some similar log-monitoring system, so you'll get frequent reports of what's probing your firewall. Logwatch is a package of Perl scripts that runs from a nightly cron job, filters your logs of routine uninteresting stuff, agregates what's left, and mails it to an admin for analysis. I think you'll find it on the Red Hat PowerTools CD. Ken mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/ [If answering a mailing list posting, please don't cc me your reply. I'll take my answer on the list.]
