Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 13:52:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@LCS.MIT.EDU> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/30079: /etc/security should not call `dmesg -a' Message-ID: <200108251752.f7PHqRh22096@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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>Number: 30079 >Category: bin >Synopsis: /etc/security should not call `dmesg -a' >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Aug 25 11:00:00 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Garrett A. Wollman >Release: FreeBSD 4.4-PRERELEASE i386 >Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science >Environment: System: FreeBSD mintaka.lcs.mit.edu 4.4-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-PRERELEASE #9: Wed Aug 15 17:13:02 EDT 2001 root@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/MINTAKA i386 Revision 1.11.2.2 of src/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c; revision 1.36.2.18 of src/etc/security >Description: /etc/security's output is now spammed with everything written to /dev/console. Whatever the problem was in misc/26870, this is not the right fix. This check in /etc/security should cover only what it claims to cover: ``kernel log messages''. I rate this problem ``serious'' because the output in this report should be short and to the point; including (potentially voluminous) extraneous log messages -- which should be analyzed in the appropriate log files anyway -- may cause the sysadmin to miss important messages written only once. >How-To-Repeat: echo 'foo' >/dev/console Wait for /etc/security to tell you about it. >Fix: Work-around: revert rev. 1.36.2.18 of /etc/security. Then figure out what was really wrong in misc/26870 and fix that instead. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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