[CentOS] What is someone trying to do?

Tue Jun 14 03:04:27 UTC 2011
Mike Williams <dmikewilliams at gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:59 PM, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote:

> This was covered by me in a blog post some time ago, as to my
> approach:
>         http://orcorc.blogspot.com/2010/06/reading-logs-part-3-run-your-updates.html
>
> The rationale for having a redirect (offsite, back to the
> proper's localhost) is to quell noise from the probing, that
> would otherwise land in Logwatch reports

I'm glad I asked, that's a nice technique.

> Also, the same probing scripts seem to wash around and after a
> while, one has most of them identified, and in the redirect
> file
>
> To get folks started, I've pushed my local packaging of rules
> 'outside' under a GPLv3+ license in SRPM form at:
>        ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/deepsix/

Thanks for the rpm.

Cheers,

Mike