Foreign log

The foreign log is a list of unknown systems that attempted to connect to the current machine. The list appears in the /var/spool/uucp/.Admin/Foreign file. The format produced by remote.unknown is as follows:

time mesg

where:

time

date and time that the entry was written to the file

mesg

the message logged by remote.unknown

An example entry is:

Wed Jan 16 15:44:20 1987: call from system machine login logname