Re: Mysterious entries in daemon log, mail.log; should I worry?

["Monique Y. Mudama" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On 2004-07-28, Ralph Katz penned:
> On 07/27/04 21:30, Uli Paul wrote:
>> Hi Ralph,
>> 
>> what does your /etc/inet.conf file look like? Are the entries for
>> imapd and the others commented out (# sign at the beginning of the
	>> line)? Did you run any mail client at that time?
>> 
>> Uli
>> 
>> PS Please CC to me, as I do NOT regulary read the list.
>
> Thanks Uli!  Answers:
>
> cat: /etc/inet.conf: No such file or directory

This should be /etc/inetd.conf

>
> The only mail client that runs is mozilla-thunderbird, which runs
> every 10 mins to fetch mail.  Of course exim runs its default cron job
> every 15 mins configured for local mail.
>
> On a probably unrelated note, I've logged 40 failed login attempts via
> ssh as root, guest, user and admin in the past few days, but none
> during the time period in question.  (Of course remote root logins are
> disabled.)
>
> Ralph
>
>

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monique