disable (new)syslog rotation and raise securelevel ... possible?

2010-07-12 Thread Fernan Aguero
Hi, I'd like to harden my FreeBSD installation, and thus would like to, e.g. i) chflags sappnd /var/log/* ii) raise the securelevel of the system Is this possible? I've read elsewhere that newsyslog would not work in such a system ... what are the possible workarounds? I wouldn't bother taking

Re: disable (new)syslog rotation and raise securelevel ... possible?

2010-07-12 Thread Bryan Drewery
Fernan, You can disable newsyslog by adding newsyslog_enable=NO to your /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.local Also be aware that you will need to reboot with kern_securelevel_enable=NO in one of those files, to lower the securelevel. You should also consider a remote syslog host. Bryan

Re: disable (new)syslog rotation and raise securelevel ... possible?

2010-07-12 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2010/07/12 11:04, Fernan Aguero wrote: Hi, I'd like to harden my FreeBSD installation, and thus would like to, e.g. i) chflags sappnd /var/log/* ii) raise the securelevel of the system Is this possible? I've read elsewhere that

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-10:07.mbuf

2010-07-12 Thread FreeBSD Security Advisories
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 = FreeBSD-SA-10:07.mbuf Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: