On Friday 13 August 2021 13:40:08 Michael wrote: > On Friday 13 August 2021 02:53:55 pm William Morder via tde-users wrote: > > However ... I have been having rather a lot of what seem to be intrusion > > attempts. > > Do you have a firewall installed? ufw is the usual Debian (&derivitives) > one. Gufw Firewall (gufw), http://gufw.org , is a GUI for it, which makes > it insanely simple to setup. > Yup, I have ufw and gufw installed. (I believe that was on your own advice, as I used to rely on firestarter, which has been discontinued. > Note: If you are getting huge numbers of intrusion attempts, gufw's logs > will fill up rootfs fairly fast if rootfs is on it's own partition (default > is usually 50G when installed separately from /home) Yes, I need to check logs. I disabled logging due to this very problem: I would run out of space on that partition every few days. However, logging exists for good reasons, and this is probably one of them. And here was I thinking that a root partition shouldn't need much more than 20 GB, so that my 30+ GB ought to be more than enough. > > I have been getting weird emails from people who have exited the > > scene five or six years ago; they are dated 31 December 1969 (which date > > I get whenever, it seems, an email is corrupt). > > Check your disk(s)?? Smart something or other. I can look it up if > needed. Smart card or something? Not sure to what you're referring. > > HTH, > Michael ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx