Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:37:16 -0800 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C9milien_Tlapale?= <emilien@tlapale.com> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: periodic security run output gives false positives after 1 year Message-ID: <4F3EF2BC.7050206@tlapale.com> In-Reply-To: <20120217235620.4BEF4106566B@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20120217120034.201EB106574C@hub.freebsd.org> <20120217152400.261AC106564A@hub.freebsd.org> <CAE-mSO%2Bsa2Cu0aQksEXGyMnyns3=aAL8odmzQNMEJ77dpUAgmw@mail.gmail.com> <20120217194851.D76DE1065670@hub.freebsd.org> <4F3EE1C9.4030601@quip.cz> <20120217235620.4BEF4106566B@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 17/02/2012 15:56, Roger Marquis wrote: >> It is similar to y2k problem and dates with YY format instead of YYYY >> - it was fine for many years... > > Is it? If I recall Y2K had more to do with 2 digit year fields that > should > have been 4 digit. Whereas we have a 0 digits year field. > > I suspect it was not common practice to leave logs on the server for more > than a year when Allman originally wrote syslog, and I have not seen an > environment where logs are left in /var/log for over a year. But now, fascist-like laws in a lot of countries require us to store log files for a *long* time, for everything.
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