Re: which log files to check for hosts.deny

Hi Jack,
By spammers I meant scraper sites. They come by and scrape thousands
of my pages.

I want to block the bad guys to give me a better grip of the count of
my good traffic.

I will check /var/log/security.

Many thanks,

Monty Loree

Jack Snodgrass wrote:
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:19:28 -0800, Monty loree wrote:

I'm trying to get better control of my traffic on linux.

I have placed about 100 IP addresses in my hosts.deny file.
I am curious to know which log file I would use to see if any of these
spammer IP's have been blocked.

Thanks,

depends on your linux distro... /var/log/security maybe...
if your looking to block SPAM... /etc/hosts.deny probably
won't do you any good. I don't think that sendmail uses
this... only things that use tcp wrappers use /etc/hosts.allow
and /etc/hosts.deny.

I use iptables to block access to my mail and web ports from
'bad' users.

jack

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