Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 2 messages log

[Derek Belrose <derek_belrose@xxxxxxxx>]

What you are seeing there is Active Monitor checking the connection to make 
sure your ftp server is still up.  It happens roughly every 15 minutes.

While these do take up space, I wouldn't worry about it taking up a lot of 
space, it's pure text, and the logs are rotated regularly.  

>
> Sep 20 06:15:04 myhost proftpd[21393]: pengon.jbmetalarts.com -
> run-time scoreboard file '/var/run/proftpd/proftpd-inetd' appears to
> be from a newer version of proftpd (1.2.2rc1).
> Sep 20 06:15:04 myhost proftpd[21393]: myhost.mydomain.com
> (myhost.mydomain.com[192.168.168.2]) - FTP session opened.
> Sep 20 06:15:04 myhost proftpd[21393]: myhost.mydomain.com
> (myhost.mydomain.com [192.168.168.2]) - no such user 'active_monitor'
> Sep 20 06:15:04 myhost proftpd[21393]: myhost.mydomain.com
> (myhost.mydomain.com [192.168.168.2]) - no such user 'active_monitor'
> Sep 20 06:15:04 myhost proftpd[21393]: myhost.mydomain.com
> (myhost.mydomain.com [192.168.168.2]) - FTP session closed.


As for the Books on SysAdmin, "Running Redhat Linux" published by O'Reilly is 
very good as is "Unix System Administration Handbook" written by Nemeth, 
Snyder, Seebass and Hein.