Hi Eric, I as well as many others on this list have either worked as security administrators/ and/or designers in the aspect of systems that you have brought up here. Are you aware of the firewalls mailing list, it could be a HUGE resource in terms of these questions. As to the Logs... well the logfile name could be linked to /dev/null :) that would eliminate the logging problem... Another annoying tracking log is the syslog daemon. Mail connects are logged in their syslog using Sun sendmail and the standard syslog.conf. syslog.conf changes are needed to eliminate this misfeature... cheers kelly p.s. ignore that rather uninformed person who complained you were making yourself look illiterate... most of the folks on this list unless they actually do it for a living(such as moi) ARE quite illiterate about matters such as DNS/Mail logging and TCP/UDP/ICMP/IP logging and/or trusted systems etc. Thats part of what this forum is about for each of us to educate the rest of the list so that privacy issues get FULL spectrum coverage. Please do keep bringing these issues to the forefront... some of do appreciate it. I and others will be happy to discuss the technical details of various tracking and auditing. In-Reply-To: Peter Shipley's message of Fri, 11 Jun 1993 09:51:13 -0700 <9306111651.AA14556@edev0.TFS> Subject: MAIL: logging that happens on soda Re: sendmail logs >Eric, most of us know this stuff you are making yourself look very >unix illiterate. I have opened my mouth and removed all doubt. I _am_ mostly illiterate in the details of Unix; this is one system administration detail I did not know. I have known for a long time that these logs were in principle easy for administration to keep, but I did not know that they were an entirely standard feature. I raise this because it affects perceived remailer security and I have not once heard these specific logs brought up, on the list or in person. Eric