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
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