Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 12:56:30 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: peter@osix.com.au Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do we *really* need logger(1)? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950907125506.22792G-100000@gate> In-Reply-To: <199509071137.LAA09858@thumper.osix.com.au>
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On Thu, 7 Sep 1995, Peter May wrote:
>
> Hmmmm ... the best way of doing this is probably a rotary log file
> rather than a flat log file.
This will prevent your disks from filling up, but then allows a
malicious user to fill up your logs with junk, once again making
syslog useless.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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