Puzzling dead.letter file.

[Lisa Kachold]

This is your security-report, mailed to the the root user from a system
user named "msec"

It will either queue up in root mail or bounce back to the sender  as
dead.letter in the home directory of the sender if your mail is not setup.

*You can configure mail and add an alias to /etc/aliases for root so it
will forward to you to be read?*

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-mandriva-2010.0-free-x86_64-ispconfig-2(search
forward to the mail section)

Edit /etc/aliases for root (at the bottom) to forward to your email
address) and then enter the command "newaliases"

*To set your security-report settings for mail.*

Run (as root) msecgui.  On the Basic Security tab, there should be an
option called "Send security alerts by email", that you can uncheck.

If the version you have doesn't have that option in the gui, try adding
MAIL_WARN=no
to /etc/security/msec/security.conf or changing the existing value from yes
to no.
BTW you just advertised to the world your listening ports and a user name
(patti),

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrUnsC72w3I&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL303B480A5A166A0FProFtpd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8MgJSHN2ZQ  SSH Bruteforce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pfFbEbHRbM Samba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBTsQ6e7gXY Scripting Perl 101  (xinetd smux)

Might want to ask someone to email you offlist for such detailed
information as what is related in your security report?

 *You might consider adding the checkrootkit package and run a full scan
now and read those security reports?*

# yum install chkrootkit

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=chkrootkit

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:07 PM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

>
> So, is there any action I need to take?
> Or can this file be safely deleted?
>
> Curious that after 3 years of accumulated/appended messages
> it just stopped in March this year with no more messages.
>
>
> ---------------------
> > mail client creates dead.letter file:
> >
> http://www.linuxask.com/questions/what-is-the-file-dead-letter-in-my-home-folder
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:03 PM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
> >> Today, I discovered the following file in my system's top '/' directory:
> >> - - - http://www.upquick.com/temp/dead.txt - - -
> >>
> >> - Can anyone please tell me why this file was created?
> >>
> >> - Is there some action that I need to take as a result of information
> >> that is revealed in this file?
> >>
> >> - Is there any reason to save this file?  Or can it be safely deleted?
>
>
>
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