On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 20:41:54 -0400, Angelo wrote > Naturally by these questions, I'm not as an Seasoned Veteran of Linux > as I am with Winblow$ machines so I'm stumbling a little but I have 5 > questions: Syslogs and security; > > 1. Where are the SYSTEM logs stored? /var/log > 2. I saw this in my logs today "Jun 5 04:02:29 MYSERVERNAME syslogd > 1.4.1: restart." - I didn't restart my computer and if I'm correct, > does this mean my system was started? No, syslogd was. > 3. I know what it is on a WinBlow$ machine but I'm not sure on Linux, > if a new account is on the system, where is that security event > shown/tracked? > 4. My Security logs only showed two entries :Jun 5 17:23:14 > MYSERVERNAME xinetd[3358]: START: sgi_fam pid=13765 from=<no address> > Jun 5 20:19:32 MYSERVERNAME xinetd[3358]: START: sgi_fam pid=14119 > from=<no address>", this can't be possible - it appears to have been > cleared? Is that possible? > > 5. How can I prevent my logs from being cleared and/or track when > they have been? For a start man syslogd man syslog.conf man logrotate less /etc/xinetd.d/sgi_fam man xinetd man useradd man crond man crontab man chown man chmod -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
