From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 12 11:53:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9209537B401 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:53:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A67143E4A for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:53:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0CJrNTJ052857; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 22:53:25 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 22:53:23 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: james_mapson@museum.rain.com Cc: Hans Lambermont , "" Subject: Re: Partial kernel log lines in security output In-Reply-To: <20030112100418.A31931@ns.museum.rain.com> Message-ID: <20030112223906.M48603@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20030111164213.A29112@ns.museum.rain.com> <20030112060118.GF34100@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org> <20030112142010.Y21458@woozle.rinet.ru> <20030112100418.A31931@ns.museum.rain.com> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, James Long wrote: JL> > It's a cruft from rotating kernel messages buffer, usually sourced from "ipfw JL> > deny log" ipfw statements, which explode kernel message buffer. Harmless, JL> > usually, though. JL> JL> Still, I cringe each time I have to tell someone that, for example, JL> the "file system full" message they're pointing to is "just a bug." JL> JL> This has existed for a long time, in my experience (> 1yr), but perhaps JL> no one has yet filed a PR on it. You know, it's very easy to report, but much harder to fix (at least _properly). And, moreover, Report-only PRs are taken with much less enthusiasm comparing with ones with real solutions ;-) Sidenote: I'm unfortunately out of useful ideas, except the very simple: one may skip 1st line of both saved and current dmesg (via, for example, `tail +2') before comparing... Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message