From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 28 8:26:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from imr2.ericy.com (imr2.ericy.com [12.34.240.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B50F137B407 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:26:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca) Received: from mr6.exu.ericsson.se (mr6att.ericy.com [138.85.92.14]) by imr2.ericy.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5SFQZB09507 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:26:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from noah.lmc.ericsson.se (noah.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.1.1]) by mr6.exu.ericsson.se (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5SFQUF02973 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:26:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: from lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se (lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.16.175]) by noah.lmc.ericsson.se (8.11.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id f5SFQTG18130 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:26:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lmc35.lmc.ericsson.se with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:26:28 -0400 Received: from lmc.ericsson.se (lmcpc100455.pc.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.23.150]) by LMC37.lmc.ericsson.se with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id NZTGB1MS; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:26:24 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3B3B4C9E.5010800@lmc.ericsson.se> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:26:22 -0400 Organization: LMC, Ericsson Research Canada User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 X-Accept-Language: en,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: security check output, kernel log message References: <1444.993740757@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I also had my share of "trouble" with that. Sometimes, it's strictly impossible to have boot dmesg. The kernel dmesg buffer gets overflown, this is understandable. But /var/log/dmesg.today *also* gets trashed. isn't there a nice little file somewhere that keeps *boot* (not console!) messages? A. Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:45:29 +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: > > >>>>5.255.255:137 in via xl1 >>>> >>>What does this mean? >>> >>That is a truncated log from another day. >> > > What I've wondered for a while is how to flush that out so I stop > getting it in my daily security check output. I still have a load of > 'em left over from when I turned log_in_vain on a few weeks ago. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > -- Antoine Beaupré Jambala TCM team Ericsson Canada inc. mailto:antoine.beaupre@ericsson.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message