Gregory Machin wrote:
remeber to affect the permissions ... and what Connection closed by UNKNOWN mean ... does it mean it could not resolve the connection dns name ??
I had something of this sort last month. I suggest you go through /var/log/messages and see if you get messages similar to "pam_tally: pam_get_uid; no such user UNKNOWN". The messages are exactly one minute apart. Smells like bot/script activity. The entry above the pam_tally should tell you where it originated from. See last months archive for the complete discussion of my case. The subtect of the thread was NOUSER.
Hope this helps. -- Regards, विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar) Registered Linux User #374218 Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) Linux 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 x86_64