Figuring out if my server's logfile has an attempt of attack or not

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if you mean pcap when you say 'log file', then there are several possible signs of an attack. But it's hard to spot such a sign, without knowing what kind of attack you're looking for.

• DoS/DDoS attack: You should see a massive increase of traffic in the pcap and lot's of missing ACK and/or Duplicate ACK, because the system can't handle the extra load
• targeted attacks (protocol/application level): Longer response times, more TCP reconnets, TCP RESETs, etc., because the application is either under load or crashing

If you really mean a log file, when you say log file, please add more details.

Regards
Kurt