Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:51:42 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: Mike Kelly <pioto@pioto.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com> Subject: Re: periodic security run output gives false positives after 1 year Message-ID: <20120218005143.536DA1065672@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAFb0NsJT47qVZHOGJN8WfdLHk3NdNEyz4_wDrrkAY10ECU16mA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20120217120034.201EB106574C@hub.freebsd.org> <20120217152400.261AC106564A@hub.freebsd.org> <CAE-mSO%2Bsa2Cu0aQksEXGyMnyns3=aAL8odmzQNMEJ77dpUAgmw@mail.gmail.com> <20120217194851.D76DE1065670@hub.freebsd.org> <CAFb0NsJT47qVZHOGJN8WfdLHk3NdNEyz4_wDrrkAY10ECU16mA@mail.gmail.com>
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> 1) Make it an option. > 2) If it isn't set, keep the output like it is now. > 3) Set it by default in new installs, with a comment above it that it > might break things. That way people upgrading get a warning, too, and > can keep it the way it has been if they'd like. You can, but it'd be like sendmail logging which has no fixed format and correspondingly few log report programs. OTOH Postfix learned from that and made its log format immutable. As a result there are some nice syslog-reading report utilities for postfix. POSIX' Austin group tried to do something similar by proposing a LOCALE-dependent month field of variable length instead of 3 char English month names. Not aware of anyone who used that. It was never a good idea but the Austin group is small, has alarmingly little concern for backwards compatibility, and does not solicit end-user input. FreeBSD is still my favorite OS in large part because it is not like POSIX' Austin group in those respects. Roger Marquis
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