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From: Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com>
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Tony Kimball wrote:
> Quoth Drew Derbyshire on Sat, 23 August:
> : > Do we really need console messages like this?
> : > cd0: NOT READY asc:3a,0 Medium not present
> : > cd0: error code 0
> : >
> : > I think they are a security hole, if nothing else.
> :
> : Huh?  Why is that?
> 
> Anyone logged in can poll and empty CD drive and
> overflow the log space.

Any program can do that with logger, or write a (long) one-line C
program to call syslog directly.  So I must disagree as it to being any
real hole.

-ahd-

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