Nope, never been on the 'net. No FTP, TFTP, or Telnet. It's not on a network at all in fact; it's a standalone box I built for me to learn UNIX on.

When I "who", I only get root. "ps" only gives me information on tty1 (root) and lists only login, bash, and ps under CMD. Obvious I guess, root's the only account logged in, right?

(remember, I'm still learning this!)

The powerdown message, I've been getting even when I had X-Window running and unsuccessfully tried to log into Linux (although the date has since changed).

/var/log/messages list multiple listings of:

... localhost syslogd 1.3-3: restart
(and)
... localhost --MARK--

/var/log/secure lists all of the account authentication errors.

Thankfully, this is only a learning computer, so if I DID need to blow away Linux and reinstall, no problem. I may just replace it with Redhat 6 instead; I've got that, too. (if I do, do I have to reformat, or can Redhat 6 overwrite TurboLinux and use the same partitions I have set up?

Makes perfect sense to secure (if not turn off) ftp and telnet. Is it hard to do?

BTW, thank you for having the patience to deal with a newbie like me!

Best,

>>>>>>>>>>Chris
Author: "Sabrina Online: The Story"
www.furnation.com/chrisfoxx