Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 22:22:08 GMT From: Brian Neal <brian@free1.cetinc.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Logfile question Message-ID: <199807302222.WAA14541@free1.cetinc.com>
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I have a question regarding logfile rotation and removal. Specifically, my messages and ftpd files have disappeared. This is 2.2.6-STABLE. I was wondering if they would be deleted to free up space? There was an incident on this machine a few days ago, someone got ahold of a username and password and got into the system via ftp. This individual did not, however, have permissions necessary to delete any of these files, however, since I have no logs, I can't tell what did happen. If this individual used some kind of password dictionary to get in (obviously generating a very large amount of unsuccessfull login attempts), could the messages log have been deleted to conserve space? Thanks in advance, Brian Neal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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