what is emlog.pl

lol Ok guys - NO ONE has really answered this guy's question! All the other guy did was state the following: "you don't know how hackers and networking works" - which is NOT helpful (just kinda smug and arrogant 😟)! So dude, let me actually help you:

I went into the Unix shell and typed the following:

~>man emlog.pl

And I got THIS output:

DESCRIPTION

emlog is a perl script that scans log messages either fed through stdin or via a local UDP port, looking for

authentication failures and other security notices, and feeding them as events to the Event Monitor (emond)

So! Happy trails!

Hello Ruum,

Your statement is incorrect. I provided a link to a similar question. That link takes you to a clear description of what this file does and additional information about it, including that same man page. If you want to provide a better reply and save the OP a couple of clicks, you are welcome to do so. But if you really wanted to be helpful, you wouldn't wait 8 months to post it. Otherwise, that just makes the people who did provide timely assistance feel smug and arrogant. 🙂

It appears to be legitimate, which is more than I can say about the firewall. The application firewall is not a real security tool. What you see is a good example. You seem to have made customizations the firewall to make it do something. But unless you really know how networking and hackers work, then you are wasting your time. And if you did know how networking and hackers work, then you wouldn't be using the application firewall in the first place.

Hello gbo25,

You aren't the first person to see this: pop up box says :"Do you want the application"emlog.pl" to accept incoming network connections?"