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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:08:00 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Whiskey Mike <breaker@hawk.phantasy.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   state of log files
Message-ID:  <199710151508.KAA29250@hawk.phantasy.com>

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A short while back, a host that I frequent was hacked, in addition to to
dozens of university machines, including MIT and Princeton. The
perpetrator, who was eventually caught, put a backdoor on port 150 so he
could get in no matter what /etc/hosts.deny stated.

Eventually he was caught, but now /var/log/messages, /var/log/ftp.log and
/var/log/secure are not being written to. The date and time of these files
are the same as the last time he hacked the system. 

What can I do to make sure these log files are being written to? As of
now, the logfiles have not been written to in two weeks, which is a long
time to not know what's going on with the system. 

Any information would be greatly appreciated. Please contact me at
breaker@hawk.phantasy.com if you can be of assistance.

Thanks in advance,

-b




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