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Date:      Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:48:22 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au>
Cc:        bugs@bugs.au.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [bugs] Misleading security message output
Message-ID:  <20050417074822.GU89047@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20050414030436.GA96739@gurney.reilly.home>
References:  <20050414030436.GA96739@gurney.reilly.home>

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On Thu, 2005-Apr-14 13:04:36 +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
[Unexpected failed login reports in security messages]
>
>After much hunting around, and checking perimeter logs, it
>turned out that nothing of the sort had happened.  The security
>log script had been fooled by the age of the messages.0.gz file,
>which contained messages from more than a year ago.

I was bitten at home and worked out what happened.  So when the same
problem showed up at work, I knew what had happened.

>  It can be worked-around by forcing faster log-file rotations,

That's the solution I used.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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