hack attempt on my server...What do you do about this?

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Sun Jul 18 03:13:20 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 22:56, L. Clayton Parker wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 19:51, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The easiest way to read root email is to login or su to the root user
> > and execute the command:  mail
> > 
> > This is a text based email client.
> > 
> 
> Better make that command:    
> 
> 	mail -u root 
> 
> or it won't work.

Not true.  I said to login or su to the root user before running the
mail command.

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Scot L. Harris
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