Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:49:54 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is log_in_vain really good or really bad? Message-ID: <4083A0C2.3F86159E@kuzbass.ru> References: <1998.213.112.193.35.1082212115.squirrel@mail.hackunite.net> <20040419021239.GA67288@blossom.cjclark.org>
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"Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > 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? > -- > Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu I believe that was a bug in syslogd and this bug is already fixed in both of CURRENT and STABLE for not so long. Eugene
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