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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:36:59 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: logging securelevel violations
Message-ID:  <20020312003659.GH2388@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020311220030.01c3ace0@mail.drwilco.net>
References:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020311220030.01c3ace0@mail.drwilco.net>

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On 2002-03-11 22:00, Rogier R. Mulhuijzen wrote:
> 
> >I think this would be useful, but I would be concerned about the rate at
> >which these messages could come when someone is actively attacking a 
> >system.
> >Perhaps such messages could go through a rate limiter mechanism similar to
> >that now used by the network interfaces.
> 
> syslogd already has a "last message repeated N times"

Rate limiting is still needed:

	while true ;do
		echo "" > /dev/ad0
		echo "" > /dev/ad1
	done

This would cause syslogd to go nuts!

Giorgos Keramidas                       FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}  http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/

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