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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:07:32 +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
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On 2002-03-12 08:29, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote:
> At 02:36 12-3-2002 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >Rate limiting is still needed:
> >
> >        while true ;do
> >                echo "" > /dev/ad0
> >                echo "" > /dev/ad1
> >        done
> >
> >This would cause syslogd to go nuts!
> 
> crw-r-----  2 root  operator  116, 0x00010002 Jan 20 03:13 /dev/ad0
> 
> Only if you're root.

Well, you get the idea.  I meant that syslog will catch the repetitive
messages, only if no other messages are sent between the two or more lines
that match :-(

Giorgos Keramidas                       FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}  http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/

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