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Boot log messages – SnapGear 1.7.8 User Manual

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Appendix B – System Log

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This message shows the date/time, whether the authentication succeeded or failed, the
user attempting authentication (in this case root) and the IP address from which the
attempt was made.

Telnet (Command Line Interface) login attempts appear as:

Jan 30 03:18:37 2000 login: Authentication attempt failed for
root from 10.0.0.2

Jan 30 03:18:40 2000 login: Authentication successful for root

from 10.0.0.2

Once again, showing the same information as a web login attempt.

Boot Log Messages

The SnapGear appliance’s startup boot time messages are identified by log messages
similar to the following:

klogd: Linux version 2.4.20-uc0 (jamma@daniel) (gcc version
3.0.4) #4 Mon Feb 3 15:17:50 EST 2003

This also shows the version of the operating system (linux), and the build date and time.