Re: [cobalt-users] error log emergency

[Theodore Jones <theoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

Tried that allready, but it still records an error in the /home/log/httpd/error
file?  Is there some serviece I need to reboot or reload in order for that block
to work?

~ Theo

Mike Fritsch wrote:

> I believe you can put his IP into the hosts.deny file.
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Theodore Jones" <theoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 12:04 AM
> Subject: [cobalt-users] error log emergency
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I recently caught a hacker trying to hack a password protected site on my
> > 3i unit.   I was able to deny him/her service vi a deny line in the
> > .htacces file of the protected directory.   This worked fine and I can see
> > the malicious person being denied just keeps on churning hits at me even
> > though they're being denied.  If this keeps up it will rapidly make my
> > error log grow huge and possibly crash my machine (the intent?).
> >
> > How can you make the error logging just ignore this malciious IP, or just
> > pass them off to an error message or some null thing so that no entries to
> > me error log are incurred?
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated!,
> >
> > ~ Theo
> >
> >
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