Is it Sinister?

Hi

I'm a complete newbie. Just set up my Apache server on RedHat9. I have
the following entry in my error log and I'm wondering what it
means.This sequence appears quite regularly now whenever I start
Apache except that the IP address has changed either to my own or the
loopback address. The IP address in the excerpt below has never
reappeared. Does this mean that someone is executing a script on my
machine? How worried should I be? And what does the (13) refer to on
the lines below?

Also in the "System Logs" "Preferences" "Alerts" dialog box someone
inserted "oops" in the keyword list. Please tell me that "oops" is not
a default option.It seems to me that someone hacked my computer and
wanted me to know about it or am I being totally paranoid?



[Tue Feb 24 12:33:31 2004] [error] [client 217.229.251.141]
(13)Permission denied: access to /index.php denied
[Tue Feb 24 12:33:31 2004] [error] [client 217.229.251.141]
(13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied
[Tue Feb 24 12:33:31 2004] [error] [client 217.229.251.141]
(13)Permission denied: access to /index.htm denied
[Tue Feb 24 12:33:31 2004] [error] [client 217.229.251.141]
(13)Permission denied: access to /index.shtml denied
[Tue Feb 24 12:33:31 2004] [error] [client 217.229.251.141]
(13)Permission denied: access to /error/noindex.html denied
[Tue Feb 24 14:01:16 2004] [error] [client 61.184.47.221]
(13)Permission denied: access to /scripts/nsiislog.dll denied

Can you do an ls -al on the files it's saying that access is being
denied to and tell us the file permissions?

Cyde Weys <cyde@umd.edu> wrote in message news:<c1o6fr$u8$2@grapevine.wam.umd.edu>...
> Can you do an ls -al on the files it's saying that access is being
> denied to and tell us the file permissions?

Thanks for your response. Can you explain how this would be of
assistance? Some of the files to which access was denied don't exist
and the others are secure.I simply wondered if the intrusion was
likely to result in any serious consequence?