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On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:28:35PM +0200, z3l3zt@hackunite.net wrote:
[snip]

> My server box is a Intel Celeron 733Mhz, 384Mb of RAM.. yet it's slow from
> time to time since I only run ATA66 due to the old motherboard. When this
> "attack" occured yesterday, the box almost died and the box were working
> 100%.. all users who were logged in got "spammed" since the default
> *.emerg in /etc/syslog.conf is set to "*" ..

Not sure what that has to do with anything. The log_in_vain messages get
logged at "info" level. What messages were your users seeing?
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Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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