Re: what does this sendmail message in Logwatch showing? hacking?

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On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:58 -0700, M E Fieu wrote:
> Thanks how about the following ?? 
> 
> ################### LogWatch 4.3.2 (02/18/03) #################### 
>        Processing Initiated: Tue Jun  6 04:02:01 2006
>        Date Range Processed: yesterday
>      Detail Level of Output: 0
>           Logfiles for Host: www3
>  ################################################################ 
> 
>  --------------------- sendmail Begin ------------------------ 
> 
> Unknown users:
> 
>     believeworld0303
>       from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]    2 time(s).
> 
>     lichungchung
>       from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]    1 time(s).

What don't you understand about this? Someone on this machine tried
sending mail to the non-existent users believeworld0303 and
lichungchung. Look in /var/log/maillog for those usernames to see when
it happened, and possibly more details.

And why are you running such an ancient version of logwatch?

Paul.



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