[ale] Logcheck vs Logwatch

Bob Toxen bob at verysecurelinux.com
Mon Dec 20 22:04:44 EST 2004


On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:13:41PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote:
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> Bob Toxen wrote:
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> | The ONLY value to LogWatch, IMO, is that it gives stats on how many times
> | someone tries and fails to log in and thus likely is a hacker.
> [...]
> Bob,
> ~    Don't you mean cracker in the sentence above?  Your enhancement of
> Logcheck would seem to indicate that you, too, are a hacker - and that
> it isn't a bad thing.
Yes, I do mean cracker but given up on discouraging people from saying
hacker when they mean hacker.

> Regards,
> - --
> Barry Hawkins
> All Things Computed
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Bob

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