Successful probes of my server

Rich Fearn fedora at richardfearn.co.uk
Sun Sep 5 22:28:09 UTC 2004


> Hi,
>
> I'm using Logwatch 5.2.2 and in email today it emailed
> me the following:
>
>  --------------------- httpd Begin
> ------------------------
>
> A total of 4 sites probed the server
>   203.218.141.123
>   203.206.246.90
>   203.218.200.154
>
> !!!! 3 possible successful probes
>  /css/phpmyadmin.css.php?js_frame=left&num_dbs=0 HTTP
> Response 200
>
> /css/phpmyadmin.css.php?lang=en-iso-8859-1&js_frame=right
> HTTP Response 200
>
> /css/phpmyadmin.css.php?lang=en-iso-8859-1&js_frame=left&num_dbs=0
> HTTP Response 200
>
>  ---------------------- httpd End
> -------------------------
>
> What does this mean exactly?

When logwatch processes your log files, the script responsible for looking
at the Apache logs (which you can find at /etc/log.d/scripts/services/http)
treats every request containing the word 'phpmyadmin' as suspicious. On my
system I can see this at line 113 of the script.

Rich






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