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Hi, I am fairly new to linux and was messing around with the SSH command and decided to try to SSH myself and purposly put in a wrong password and ...
  1. 05-18-2007 #1
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    Question /var/log/messages

    Hi, I am fairly new to linux and was messing around with the SSH command and decided to try to SSH myself and purposly put in a wrong password and was reading that you could see any failed SSH login attempts in /var/log/messages but when I use the command tail -f /var/log/messages all i get is a bunch of log entries that says "-- MARK --" with syslodg 1.4.1#18: restart. every now and then and I was wondering why I couldn't see anything else in the log file, any help would be appriciated I am running Debian Etch with fluxbox for my window-manager and urvxt as my terminal.
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    tail -f /var/log/auth.log
    will give you what you are looking for.
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