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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:08:37 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Pawe=C5=82_Biernacki?= <kaktus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        void <void@f-m.fm>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: securelevel 1
Message-ID:  <6638DADD-FCDB-492C-B1E8-441C6622038B@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <ZTeaGFZjvcsKfbOW@int21h>
References:  <ZTeaGFZjvcsKfbOW@int21h>

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Setting kern.securelevel to 1 makes the kernel to enforce the =
system-level immutable and append-only flags (see chflags(1/2)).
Unless you do something extra, syslogd will create new files without =
these flags and newsyslog will rotate them as expected. =20

Hope that helps,
Pawe=C5=82.


> On 24 Oct 2023, at 12:19, void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> I'd like to set append-only on an arm64 system running =
stable/14-n265566
> (so securelevel=3D1) but how would newsyslog(8) handle it? How will it =
rotate
> logs?
>=20
> --=20
>=20




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