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Date:      Tue, 12 May 2009 15:23:35 +0200
From:      Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
To:        Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, gad@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: newsyslog(8) patch for both size and time checks
Message-ID:  <4A097857.5040007@quip.cz>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905121354450.1756@woozle.rinet.ru>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905121354450.1756@woozle.rinet.ru>

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Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> for now, if log is configured to be rotated in time manner, its size is not 
> checked, so /var/log may be DoSed by some service (in our case, it was mad DHCP 
> client which fills up our /var/log with dhcpd log; our newsyslog.conf line was
> 
> /var/log/dhcpd				640  5     5000	@T00	JC
> 
> The following simple patch should fix the problem. Any objection to commit 
> this?

I can't judged the patch, but I am +1 for this functionality.

Miroslav Lachman



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