what does this sendmail message in Logwatch showing? hacking?

M E Fieu sibu168 at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 6 17:58:09 UTC 2006


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).





--- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:

> M E Fieu wrote:
> > Hi. Can you help me to take a look what is mean by the following sendmail message in Logwatch
> > showing??  how the sendmail show this message??  how do they key in chenkai1`ms64.hinet.net ? 
> And
> > also what is the forwarding error message??  I don't have /root/.forward file at all.  
> > 
> > Forwarding errors:
> >     /root/.forward.localhost: Group writable directory: 1 Times(s)
> >     /root/.forward: Group writable directory: 1 Times(s)
> 
> What are the permissions on / and /root ?
> 
> # ls -ld / /root
> drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 May 23 16:22 /
> drwxr-x--- 10 root root 4096 Jun  6 15:26 /root
> 
> Looks like sendmail is complaining about at least one of them being too 
> lax (i.e. group-writeable).
> 
> Paul.
> 
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