From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 11 16:37:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E2237B41A for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:37:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b218.otenet.gr [212.205.244.226]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2C0b51S015745; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:37:06 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2C0b4Y0004300; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:37:04 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2C0b0HA004293; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:37:00 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) X-Authentication-Warning: hades.hell.gr: charon set sender to keramida@freebsd.org using -f Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:36:59 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: logging securelevel violations Message-ID: <20020312003659.GH2388@hades.hell.gr> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020311220030.01c3ace0@mail.drwilco.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020311220030.01c3ace0@mail.drwilco.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message