On Friday 13 August 2021 13:40:08 Michael wrote:
On Friday 13 August 2021 02:53:55 pm William Morder via tde-users wrote:
However ... I have been having rather a lot of what seem to be intrusion attempts.
Do you have a firewall installed? ufw is the usual Debian (&derivitives) one. Gufw Firewall (gufw), http://gufw.org , is a GUI for it, which makes it insanely simple to setup.
Yup, I have ufw and gufw installed. (I believe that was on your own advice, as I used to rely on firestarter, which has been discontinued.
Note: If you are getting huge numbers of intrusion attempts, gufw's logs will fill up rootfs fairly fast if rootfs is on it's own partition (default is usually 50G when installed separately from /home)
Yes, I need to check logs. I disabled logging due to this very problem: I would run out of space on that partition every few days. However, logging exists for good reasons, and this is probably one of them.
And here was I thinking that a root partition shouldn't need much more than 20 GB, so that my 30+ GB ought to be more than enough.
I have been getting weird emails from people who have exited the scene five or six years ago; they are dated 31 December 1969 (which date I get whenever, it seems, an email is corrupt).
Check your disk(s)?? Smart something or other. I can look it up if needed.
Smart card or something? Not sure to what you're referring.
HTH, Michael