Appendix C – System Log
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This message shows the date/time, whether the authentication succeeded or failed, the
user attempting authentication (in this case
root
) and the IP address from which the
attempt was made.
Telnet (Command Line Interface) login attempts appear as:
Jan 30 03:18:37 2000 login: Authentication attempt failed for
root from 10.0.0.2
Jan 30 03:18:40 2000 login: Authentication successful for root
from 10.0.0.2
Once again, showing the same information as a web login attempt.
Boot Log Messages
The SnapGear appliance’s startup boot time messages are identified by log messages
similar to the following:
klogd: Linux version 2.4.20-uc0 (jamma@daniel) (gcc version
3.0.4) #4 Mon Feb 3 15:17:50 EST 2003
This also shows the version of the operating system (linux), and the build date and time.