break-in attempts on my server

[Cole Tuininga]

In addition to the other excellent advice handed out here, you can check
out the denyhosts utility.  http://denyhosts.sf.net/

It's a python script that watches your log files for such attempts and
then sticks their IP address in /etc/hosts.deny for an appropriate
amount of time.

It's really quite configurable.

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Cole Tuininga
Lead Developer
Code Energy, Inc
colet at code-energy.com
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