From owner-freebsd-security Wed Sep 6 22:02:10 1995 Return-Path: security-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA10917 for security-outgoing; Wed, 6 Sep 1995 22:02:10 -0700 Received: from gate.sinica.edu.tw (gate.sinica.edu.tw [140.109.14.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA10836 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 1995 22:01:34 -0700 Received: by gate.sinica.edu.tw (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11509; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 12:56:31 +0800 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 12:56:30 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: peter@osix.com.au Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do we *really* need logger(1)? In-Reply-To: <199509071137.LAA09858@thumper.osix.com.au> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: security-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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