From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 11 13:41:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C75BB37B401 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:41:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA85370; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:41:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:41:40 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Dennis B Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: last message repeated 2 times... In-Reply-To: <843F2C0A0AE55D115A1600807CFBD63A@dcswest.about.com> Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dennis B wrote to questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > Hello Again; > > Wondering if anyone knows anything about a shell > message that occasionally displays something like > the date, time and the words "last message > repeated 2 times..." > > Thank you and have a great day, It's a nice feature in the syslogger that prevents log files (and your terminal) from getting spammed with repeating log messages of the same type. It's also a security feature in that it is more difficult for an attacker to create a denial of service condition that would fill up your logs and your drive with millions of entries. - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message