[Wylug-help] Wanted - good homes for surplus continuous listing paper

AndrewJohnsonlinux@drivecomputing.co.uk AndrewJohnsonlinux at drivecomputing.co.uk
Fri, 8 Sep 2000 13:13:58 +0100


We had a network printer, and something went wrong with it, 
anyway it ended up logging to the syslog a couple of times a 
second.... can you imagine walking into your computer room the 
next morning if that had been printing out!!  :))

Neat idea though...

-Andy-

From:           	Nik Jewell <L.N.Jewell@leeds.ac.uk>

> Most of you will no doubt be aware of this, but for any who are not, if you've
> got an old dot matrix lying around and are concerned about your server or other
> continuously connected PC beng cracked, and your log file entries being
> altered to cover tracks, one security measure is to copy all relevant log files
> to it on a continuous basis.  Not much the script kiddie can do about that (bar
> cracking the syslog daemon I guess).
> 
> A possible use of Martin's paper for someone??
> 
> Best
> 
> Nik  
> 

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