Tag Archive: logs

July 16, 2021 / by Marco / logs, mail, smtp, wpforms

USING WP MAIL SMTP TO RECEIVE EMAIL LOGS

Remember the good old days when you could just go to a website and see what all your email addresses were? Those days are gone, unfortunately. One of the biggest problems for businesses and individuals is spam. Spammers send out millions of emails a day, hoping to catch people who are not expecting to receive […]

March 9, 2015 / by Marco / cron, job, location, logs

Where are the cron job logs located?

I have a few cron jobs running and had to find out where the logs were located. After some research and it was quite obvious it was located here: /var/log/ Issue the command ls to check what is in that folder. You will see on the list, cron files with a date like below: DO […]

September 27, 2013 / by Marco / brute force attack, hacker, logs, patches, unique visitors

Leave my website alone

Yesterday one of my websites was attacked. It was a brute force attack but fortunately they gave up and moved on. How did I know I was getting attacked? Here’s some stats and logs that seemed very unusual. If you look at the figures, yesterday there were 1212 unique visitors with 21672 page views. Those […]