How do I tell if someone other than myself has logged in to my system ??... either locally or remotely ?? Is there are log file somewhere in the system I could look at ??... would it show attempted logins ??

Thank in advance

Oh yeah.. I'm running slack 10.2 with guarddog installed, I'm behind a router on my DSL connection.
I just want to make shure my system is secure, I've done a scan with the Shields Up website and my system appears to be stealthed.

Am I safe ??

Mike

Type 'last'.

-twantrd

Also check out /var/log/secure.

Regrettably, if the login was malicious, it is likely they cleared any record.

And I would imagine you are more than safe. Just make sure to keep up on Slackware security updates (I recommend subscribing to the mailing list, alternatively check out http://lwn.net/security), and don't run any unneeded services. You also might want to install rkhunter, which is a rootkit detector. If you aren't running any hosting or ssh or anything like that, you should be perfectly fine. Remember that a lot of "script kiddies" will go for easy targets, heck I bet if they find you don't have NetBIOS open (a Windows problem) they'll pass you by.

To tell you the truth, I ran with a basic firewall and Slackware install connected directly to the internet (no router) for around 8 months and had no problems at all.