Re: [SLE] watchdogs & sniffers

Thank's for the advice. I've looked at the psionic.com web pages and it seems like a smart choice. I'll look for the SysAdmin Magazine and see if it's available around here. Cheers, ei On Monday 16 April 2001 02:03, Geordon VanTassle wrote:

Congratulations!

Personally, I like Psionic Logcheck and Psionic PortSentry for auto-monitoring your logs and your ports.

The March issue of SysAdmin Magazine had a GREAT article on setting up both of these. (That's VOl 10, Number 3) Unfortunately, the article isn't on their website. Let me know if you can't find it locally, and I can send you a PDF of the article.

The April issue of Linux Journal had an article on hardining LInux via Bastille, and even included a bit of advice on getting it to work "right" on SuSE.

For my firewall, I slightly altered David Ranch's TrinityOS "firewall" script. See http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/index-linux.html for more info on the "original." Last updated on 9 Mar 2001

Also, I personally recommend getting "logrotate" installed, too. With it, you can automatically rotate your logs every day/week/month as well as filter them through other scripts, gzip them, mail them to somebody and keep different numbers of "back" copies, if you want. (e.g. messages for a week, firewall log for a month, etc...)

HTH, Geordon (been on DSL for almost a year, had lots of door-rattling but no breakin that I know of yet) ----- Original Message ----- From: "EagleIce" To: Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 6:43 PM Subject: [SLE] watchdogs & sniffers

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Hello all!

I just got a ADSL connection to run on my home box and that's cool...:-) I wonder if someone can give me a hint about what kind of protection I

should

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put up when using this kind of connection (I'm not that used to networks).

Cheers,

ei

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