On Aug 31, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 19:00 +0100, Always Learning wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 13:55 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 01:33:31 PM Always Learning wrote: >>>> Rather than being a willing or passive victim to 100% of the attacks, I >>>> aim to reduce the penetrability of most of them. >> > Still useless: it is not the attacks that you know about and that show > themselves as errors in your logs (and filter from the log, that is the > only gain), but those where you have a real security hole that you have > to worry about. And those will be exploited from one of the many other > bots in the hackers botnet. > An empty log may give you a nice feeling of security, but it is false... > A lot of work, but very little if any gain. > Louis ---- you're wasting your breath - I tried to tell him that a week ago but he only hears his own thoughts anyway. More to the point, he disables SELinux and then spends hours trying to improve security. Craig