similar to: Logwatch verbosity

Every few days I see in the logwatch on my Centos-5.5 web-server what seems like a rather feeble break-in attempt. Eg today I see --------------------------- 403 Forbidden /phpMyAdmin/scripts/setup.php: 2 Time(s) /phpmyadmin/scripts/setup.php: 2 Time(s) 404 Not Found /PMA2005/scripts/setup.php: 1 Time(s) /TRAD_files/datestamp.js: 1 Time(s) ...

I'm running a little web-server under CentOS-5.4 , with shorewall as firewall. I used to get messages about attempted intrusions, with the IP addresses of those attempting to connect. This stopped some time ago, and my logwatch reports now are very bare. I don't recall changing the settings of logwatch or shorewall. Has there been some default change? I should say that I'm not sure

I'm getting the following warning in my logwatch, or if I restart the spamassassin service. I've tried yum-reinstalling the packages involved but that didn't help. ------------------------------- /etc/cron.daily/sa-learn: Subroutine IO::Socket::INET6::AF_INET6 redefined at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Exporter.pm line 65. at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/IO/Socket/INET6.pm line 16

It seems there was some kind of attack against dovecot on my server (CentOS-5.5) with a hundred or so logwatch entries like: ========================================= **Unmatched Entries** dovecot-auth: pam_succeed_if(dovecot:auth): error retrieving information about user admin dovecot-auth: pam_succeed_if(dovecot:auth): error retrieving information about user webmaster

If there is a serious power failure, eg during an electric storm, and the internet goes down then my CentOS-6.2 server seems to take an inordinate time, maybe forever, to get past fail2ban. It is as though there is an extremely long - maybe an hour - timeout if fail2ban cannot connect to the internet. (I usually stop the machine with the power-button, re-boot into a different OS (Fedora) and

ever since implementing the no-recursion-on-outside queries fix on one of my name servers, my logwatch emails have been 10-20MB/day, filled with crud like... client 10.191.192.212 query (cache) 'm.777.liyuanxi.com/A/IN' denied: 1 Time(s) client 10.192.34.96 query (cache) 'dyjwntl.www.0411gogo.com/A/IN' denied: 1 Time(s) client 10.192.43.105 query (cache)

I'm trying to install spamassassin on a postfix/dovecot server, running CentOS-6.4, following the instructions at <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd>. I think I have taken all the steps indicated, and the configuration seems to pass the tests suggested, although the response is much more sparse than that described: ------------------------ [tim at alfred ~]$ telnet localhost 10024

Another post on fail2ban reminded me of a problem I had in Italy, when the ADSL connection kept dropping, and only came back on re-booting. (I solved the problem in the end by getting a Billion modem/router in place of the no-name one supplied by Telecom Italia.) It seems that if there was no internet connection, fail2ban hung for an inordinate length of time, possibly for ever, when shutting

If I lose my broadband connection here (Italy), and try to re-boot the computer (CentOS-6.2), the shutdown hangs at fail2ban. Normally there is no problem re-booting; it only happens if the network has gone down. It may just be an extraordinarily long timeout. Has anyone experienced this? And is there anything one can do about it? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel:

Semi Off Topic My searching hasn't found what I consider superior info, and we are wondering from others experience on this list... In the logwatch results we all see the info below on almost a daily basis I have taken the liberty of combining logwatch results from centos 4 and 5 machines for extra info and future searchability ----- Centos 4 ----- --------------------- httpd Begin

I have a 1.5TB Western Digital hard disk (WD15EADS-00R6B0) on my CentOS-5.7 server, which has become incredibly slow for some operations, eg rsync, BackupPC archive, e2fsck, although it seems to work fine for ordinary file operations, and "smartctl -a /dev/sdb" does not report any errors. For example, running "e2fsck -p /dev/sdb5" on a 250GB partition on this disk took over 24

Does anyone know if the program stunbdc, which prints one's IP address, is available in CentOS-5? It comes with the libnice package in Fedora-11. ------------------------------ [tim at rose ~]$ stunbdc -4 stun.ekiga.net Server address: 75.101.138.128 port 3478 STUN transaction started (timeout 600ms). STUN unknown: 0 mandatory attribute(s)! Received 88-bytes STUN message No

Is there any point in running NetworkManager on a server? The IP addresses of the two server NICS are fixed (192.168.1.2 and 192.168.2.2 .) I'm not clear if it is necessary in some way to run NM on a CentOS system? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

I've been getting a few avahi-daemon errors in /var/log/messages, eg ------------------------------- Jan 11 00:40:24 helen avahi-daemon[12732]: Invalid query packet. Jan 11 00:40:29 helen last message repeated 17 times ------------------------------- (This is

Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation instead. But I'd be very interested to know how to do it, for the future. Unfortunately I didn't keep a proper note of my PXEboot attempt, but IIRC the problem was that install.img was not found,

I bought a very cheap server yesterday - an HP ProLiant micro server for 160 euro (280 euro with 120 cashback, for some reason). But I was surprised when I opened the box to find it didn't come with keyboard or mouse, and doesn't have the old keyboard/mouse sockets, but requires USB versions. Is that the norm nowadays? Is it possible to convert the old keyboard/mouse plugs? Also there is

I'm almost completely ignorant about samba on Windows machines, In particular I know nothing about Windows permissions, if that is relevant here. I am running BackupPC on a CentOS-5.3 machine. It works perfectly for backing up Linux folders, but I have great difficulty extending it to Windows clients. To be precise, I have a share called "EA Games D" on a machine running Windows XP

Is there a web-interface to dovecot under CentOS-6? I want to create a top-level folder (ie at the same level as Inbox) but this doesn't seem to be possible from KMail running on a remote Fedora-6 laptop. I was browsing through the dovecot wiki, and I saw some pictures which seemed to be from a dovecot GUI, but I could not find the name of this program. Alternatively, can I simply create

I've been following the instrunctions in <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd> for installing Amavisd, Clamav and SpamAssassin on top of postfix/dovecot . Dovecot is working fine, but I want to deal with spam email. (I am using sendmail/dovecot with procmail and spamassassin on another server, but decided to go over to postfix on this server when I saw it is now the CentOS default.)

Is there any way of turning off the fetchmail warning ---------------------------------- fetchmail: Warning: the connection is insecure, continuing anyways. (Better use --sslcertck!) ---------------------------------- which I get when fetching imap mail from my college department? I know they should get a root certificate, but I'm told they are looking into it, but that could take forever.