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On 4/06/00 at 21:51 John P. Verel wrote:
>I have just first looked at a file in my /var/log directory, named
>secure. It contains a few entries like this:
>
>Jun 3 23:20:24 CV150607-A in.telnetd[1089]: connect from
>199.224.86.36
>
>Can someone tell me what this file is for and what this entry means?
>
The log keeps track of certain security issues, ie in the above it tells
you that somone apparently on this IP 199.224.86.36 connected to the
machine that contains the log with a telnet session.
You can restrict who can connect to such services through the host.allow or
host.deny files, also by using ipchains, depending on your needs
Regards
Greg Wright
IT Consultant Sydney Australia
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