Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:12:39 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@comcast.net> To: z3l3zt@hackunite.net Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is log_in_vain really good or really bad? Message-ID: <20040419021239.GA67288@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <1998.213.112.193.35.1082212115.squirrel@mail.hackunite.net> References: <1998.213.112.193.35.1082212115.squirrel@mail.hackunite.net>
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:28:35PM +0200, z3l3zt@hackunite.net wrote:
[snip]
> My server box is a Intel Celeron 733Mhz, 384Mb of RAM.. yet it's slow from
> time to time since I only run ATA66 due to the old motherboard. When this
> "attack" occured yesterday, the box almost died and the box were working
> 100%.. all users who were logged in got "spammed" since the default
> *.emerg in /etc/syslog.conf is set to "*" ..
Not sure what that has to do with anything. The log_in_vain messages get
logged at "info" level. What messages were your users seeing?
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