network security related question

[Ray Parrish]

Vitorio Okio wrote:
>> In addition to reading those, install portsentry, which will allow you
>> to specify precisely which ports you wish to monitor, up to and
>> including the entire 65,000 some ports. [although monitoring all of them
>> is probably overkill] To learn how to configure and use portsentry see
>> "man portsentry", "man portsentry.conf", and take a look at the files in
>>  /usr/share/doc/portsentry/ as well to get more insight into it's usage.
>> They are in .gz files but it's easy to open them temporarily with file
>> roller and view them.
>>     
>
> Thanks for this, I've never heard of it.
>   
You're welcome. I hadn't heard of it either until I started 
investigating the docs available for installation via the repositories. 
I've learned more in the past two weeks reading those, than I had in the 
past six months of blindly fumbling around the file structure searching 
for clues in the script files and configuration files, and doing online 
searches.

Nothing beats having the information right here on my own machine to 
study, and it's all layed out in a logical manner too.

Later, Ray Parrish

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