Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:36:59 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: logging securelevel violations Message-ID: <20020312003659.GH2388@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020311220030.01c3ace0@mail.drwilco.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020311220030.01c3ace0@mail.drwilco.net>
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On 2002-03-11 22:00, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote:
>
> >I think this would be useful, but I would be concerned about the rate at
> >which these messages could come when someone is actively attacking a
> >system.
> >Perhaps such messages could go through a rate limiter mechanism similar to
> >that now used by the network interfaces.
>
> syslogd already has a "last message repeated N times"
Rate limiting is still needed:
while true ;do
echo "" > /dev/ad0
echo "" > /dev/ad1
done
This would cause syslogd to go nuts!
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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