From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 4:43:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91AAC37B423 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 04:43:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from primo.bfm.org ([216.127.218.20]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:45:18 -0500 Received: from office.palaver.org (unverified [216.176.8.9]) by primo.bfm.org (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Fri, 08 Sep 2000 06:43:07 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000908063552.00acbd10@mail.bfm.org> X-Sender: rfisher@mail.palaver.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 06:43:25 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ryugen@palaver.org (Ryugen C. Fisher) Subject: strange security message Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My "security check output" recently began to send me the following: chih.bfm.org login failures: grep: /var/log/messages: No such file or directory chih.bfm.org refused connections: grep: /var/log/messages: No such file or directory I have looked at the syslog.conf file and it seems "normal" ... I have also not made any changes that would account for this. A look at the /var/log directory shows that there is NOT a /var/log/messages file, but I don't know why it does not exist... I suspect that I have a 'stowaway' but can't be certain at this point... if I have an intruder, he (or she) knows more about FreeBSD than I do. I am running 3.5-stable help, please TIA P.S. please cc: reply to me directly as I am no longer on the maillist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message