Extremely useful information here. There is no MAN page anywhere that would tell all of this; I've been trying to figure this out, but not even knowing where to start.
Thank you very much for this. Regards, Mark VII [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 05 December 2001 07:31 pm, Steven J. Yellin wrote: > To find out about the mon service, one place to start > is by typing "rpm -ql mon". It will show there's a file > /etc/rc.d/init.d/mon, which probably means mon is known > by chkconfig. The command "chkconfig --list mon" will > tell you the status of mon; it's probably on in levels 3, > 4, and 5. The "chkconfig --list" command, without > specifying the service, shows the status of all services. > You can turn services on and off with chkconfig. For > example, "chkconfig mon off" should get rid of mon for > you until you figure out how to make it do what you want. > Also shown in the list made by "rpm -ql mon" should be a > bunch of documentation files in > /usr/share/doc/mon-0.38.18, along with > /usr/share/man/man1/mon.1.gz, moncmd.1.gz, and > monshow.1.gz. So "man mon", "man moncmd", and "man > monshow" could supply useful information. > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > > ... > > I am not sure of the value of such a program as "mon" > > anyhow; since, after all, I really DON'T want to have > > telnet available! There's probably a way to tell it > > not to check for the telnet port availability; however > > you should see some of the OTHER weird notices I get! > > They are very long; which is why I haven't posted them > > on the list. Besides the headers in the mail, there are > > 68 lines of either "Security Violations", or "Unusual > > System Events". And example of the former is: > > > > 3 Dec 4 16:01:59 CX9465-a mon[1195]: failure for > > servers http 1007510519 localhost > > > > And the other type's example would be: > > > > 37 Dec 4 16:01:59 CX9465-a mon[1195]: failure for > > servers http 1007510519 localhost > > > > Not a lot of difference, huh? I don't get that part at > > all... > > > > And the thing is, I get dozens of mails for root, just > > like this, every day! I just checked, and there are 42 > > listed right now! > > > > It seems to be monitoring for UNAVAILABLE services...is > > there an easy way to make it do the inverse? And let > > me know if, for instance, the telnet port suddenly > > opened up for no reason? THAT might be useful! <g!> > > > > Anyway, I want to turn it off, but in looking at the > > "man mon" page I don't see a way to do that. It seems > > harder to make things stop, than it does to make things > > go. Dang... > > > > Any advice would be appreciated. _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
