Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 07:45:15 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var partition overflow (due to spyware?) in FreeBSD default install Message-ID: <3F991EDB.6080706@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031023183427.04e18d10@localhost> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20031023162326.04c1e008@localhost> <p0600201bbbbe19a62f97@[128.113.24.47]> <6.0.0.22.2.20031023183427.04e18d10@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: >>Just how large is /var on the >>machine where you're seeing this problem? >> >> > >On the machine from which I took those messages, it's 256M. > Personally, on all the machines I build, I have the luxury of having decent sized hard drives in them, and I never have a /var partition that small. 256M can be swallowed by all sorts of crazy things that spam to /var/log/messages. I typically make my /var partition at least 1gb, but never smaller. Making the /var partition larger doesn't *fix* the problem, but it gives you more time to be aware of a problem and react to it. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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