From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Aug 27 1:49:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (afgate.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D249837B403 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 01:49:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f7R8mL630592; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:48:29 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:48:18 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: To: "Garrett A. Wollman" Cc: Subject: Re: bin/30079: /etc/security should not call `dmesg -a' In-Reply-To: <200108251752.f7PHqRh22096@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Garrett A. Wollman wrote: > >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. ... > >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. Its a pity it looks like this won't be fixed for 4.4-RELEASE; the spammage is rather annoying, especially because most messages are double-ups. The daily report is now more than twice the size it used to be... -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message