From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 17 14:32:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA22125 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:32:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from matlock.mindspring.com (matlock.mindspring.com [204.180.128.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA22118 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 14:32:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by matlock.mindspring.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA12716 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 17:32:09 -0400 Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA12830; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:31:57 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id XAA11925; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:31:11 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.Alpha.5/keltia-uucp-2.8) id XAA11956; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:26:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199607172126.XAA11956@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: help: immutable files, logs To: tlewis@mindspring.com (Todd Graham Lewis) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:26:44 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: lists-freebsd-hackers@matlock.mindspring.com In-Reply-To: from Todd Graham Lewis at "Jul 17, 96 04:18:06 pm" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#2232 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Todd Graham Lewis said: > We are looking at tidying up our log process, and we'd like to use the > immutable attribute to protect our log files. The problem, of course, is > that if a log file is immutable, then you can't write to it. Don't use "immutable", just use "append-only". It was created just for logs. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #15: Sun Jul 14 17:33:54 MET DST 1996