Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:48:18 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@LCS.MIT.EDU> Cc: <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bin/30079: /etc/security should not call `dmesg -a' Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108271841480.27295-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200108251752.f7PHqRh22096@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Garrett A. Wollman wrote:
> >Description:
> /etc/security's output is now spammed with everything written
> to /dev/console. Whatever the problem was in misc/26870, this
> is not the right fix. This check in /etc/security should
> cover only what it claims to cover: ``kernel log messages''.
> I rate this problem ``serious'' because the output in this
> report should be short and to the point; including
> (potentially voluminous) extraneous log messages -- which
> should be analyzed in the appropriate log files anyway -- may
> cause the sysadmin to miss important messages written only
> once.
...
> >Fix:
>
> Work-around: revert rev. 1.36.2.18 of /etc/security.
> Then figure out what was really wrong in misc/26870 and fix
> that instead.
Its a pity it looks like this won't be fixed for 4.4-RELEASE; the spammage
is rather annoying, especially because most messages are double-ups. The
daily report is now more than twice the size it used to be...
--
:{ andyf@speednet.com.au
Andy Farkas
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
http://www.speednet.com.au/
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