Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:48:16 +0100 From: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: 900.tcpwrap and stale log messages Message-ID: <4C497370.3010803@witchspace.com>
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Hiya Early this morning I read through the daily status e-mails from a server I administer. I was unpleasantly surprised to see a refused ssh connection from an external IP address, which shouldn't be possible since the machine is only accessible via a VPN :-O It wasn't until after I'd spoken to the network admin I realised what the problem was - /var/log/messages contained log messages that spanned back into 2009 (the machine is only used for SVN access so isn't very busy), and 900.tcpwrap had taken entries from both July 22 2010 (yesterday) and July 22nd 2009, when the machine was on a different network... :-( How. Embarrassing. It isn't really 900.tcpwrap's fault as the log messages only record the month, date and time, but is there any reason why the year isn't recorded in the log too? I realise this issue isn't likely to come up often, but it should be fairly easy to prevent. Cheers, --Jon
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