Security question on mass login attempts

I run a daily security log via cron that sends me an email daily showing me any suspecious activity and who accessed the system. Im starting to get this in the log now at least 50-100 time ever so oft Read all

mod_rewrite and security

Is there any security hole for using mod_rewrite in .htaccess file ? I don`t know if for example is posible rewrite some domain to other domain if domain isn`t placed in domain root on file system. Read all

Character problems with web server

When people move their files over to our web server we notice that a lot of question marks show up in places where characters like ' or - should be at. Yet this wasnt a problem on their original host. Read all

Configuring PHP on 64 bit

I'm trying to configure PHP on a dual opteron server and it keeps dumping out saying libjpeg (so | a) isn't found. I've added the line: --enable-libsuffix=64 to try and get the PHP configure script to Read all

How to spot SPAMMERS quickly

How do you go about spotting SPAMMERS, from cPanel? Read all

how to spot ddos in /var/log/messages

anybody can show me how to spot ddos / flood from /var/log/messages? Mar 7 01:25:50 encapsulation kernel: ** OUT_TCP DROP ** IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=**myserver IP** DST=202.159.31.243 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC= Read all

Why would site.com work but not www.site.com

Hi folks, I'm having a problem getting my site to work. If I use http://www.mysite.com/ it says it can't find the server, but if I use http://mysite.com/ it will work. Additionally, I can't use any su Read all

Commands to detect a flood or DOS?

Hi: For the linux gurus here, just wondering, what are some useful commands to detect in real time a possible mini Apache flood or DOS? I see big bandwidth spikes at times throughout the day. One usef Read all

allowing remote access to mysql

I have postfixadmin installed, and want full remote access to all all data from outside IP addresses of the mysql database. How is this done? I've looked at the poor documentation for mysql and don't Read all

Can you give me your opinion on these NAIT courses?

I'm a TOTAL beginner to all this stuff but I really want to learn how to set up and administer my own web server. The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) offers a bunch of courses on all t Read all

SSH keeps restarting - possible hacking attempts?

I'm getting emails everyday non-stop.... am I being hacked? I don't have SSH on port 22, but I still get this. System integrity monitor on linux.mydomain.com has taken action in responce to an event. Read all

apache wont restart

Hi apache wont start, here what i get root@west [~]# /usr/sbin/httpd configtest Warning: DocumentRoot [/dev/null] does not exist Warning: DocumentRoot [/dev/null] does not exist Syntax OK and root@wes Read all

Serious Apache problem! Need help as soon as possible!

What happened was that I wanted to upgrade apache and php using YUM on my VPS since I didn't know how to do it manually or anything low level like that. I kinda did it, but Yum really didn't update it Read all

 

 

 

 

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