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From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
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Subject: Re: newsyslog(8) patch for both size and time checks
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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