**strings of ones and zeros arranged themselves into a message from Yuri Robbers <yuri@rulbii.leidenuniv.nl> on Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:12:39 +0100 (MET) which said... **Sure it can: it did for me. Someone attacked my box from the very machine **that most legitimate users happen to use for logging in remotely. So when **I had the IP address automagically dropped into /etc/hosts.deny, many **legitimate users couldn't log in anymore. ** **Cheers, **Yuri. ooooh! bet that was a day you wished for no (voice) phone line in and a steel door filled w/ dirt!!! >VBG> I have days like that when I just want to unplug everyone usually after being on the wrong end of a 36hr day .. when I've done something really dumb that seems as if is *shuold* fix the problem ( and at that hour of my body "uptime" it often seems to glaringly obvious that this is the solution, I dont test .. (fugget! I'll catchem tomorrow) Invariablely it works all too well and w/o the sand in the door the screems could probably be heard at any end of the world one might try to be hidebernating! Steel , keeps them from doing much more than dent or skratch it ( hinges on the inside people) , AND the sand also makes it the devil to move, even w/ a crowd behind it. j afterthought: Life after death? Is that like terminate and stay resident?