Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 20:37:07 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: NEVERMIND! (was: Local Denial of Service: logger(1)) Message-ID: <2218.1401075427@server1.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <2091.1401074804@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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In message <2091.1401074804@server1.tristatelogic.com>, I wrote: >========================================================================== >#!/bin/sh > >while (1) > dd if=/dev/random bs=15 count=1 | od -c | xargs logger >end >========================================================================== DUH! I forgot that newsyslog(8) should limit the size of /var/log/messages, and that as long as you limit the size of that to a reasnable value, and as long as you have newsyslog(8) only keeping a finite & reasonable number of "rotated out" copies, then /var won't fill up. My apologies to everyone for the distraction.
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