Chapter 11. Safeguarding Against Threats
This chapter contains the following recipes:
- Sending messages to Syslog
- Rotating log files with logrotate
- Using Tripwire to detect modified files
- Using ClamAV to fight viruses
- Checking for rootkits with chkrootkit
- Using Bacula for network backups
Introduction
From logging your system's activities to sniffing out rootkits, this chapter presents recipes to help protect the investment you've made in your system and its data against various threats. First, you'll learn how to set up a central log server using Syslog, and then, how to rotate log files to make sure that they don't grow out of control. Then, we'll look at how Tripwire is used to detect system intrusion by checking if changes have been made to important ...
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