newsyslog(8) patch for both size and time checks
Miroslav Lachman
000.fbsd at quip.cz
Tue May 12 13:23:44 UTC 2009
Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> for now, if log is configured to be rotated in time manner, its size is not
> checked, so /var/log may be DoSed by some service (in our case, it was mad DHCP
> client which fills up our /var/log with dhcpd log; our newsyslog.conf line was
>
> /var/log/dhcpd 640 5 5000 @T00 JC
>
> The following simple patch should fix the problem. Any objection to commit
> this?
I can't judged the patch, but I am +1 for this functionality.
Miroslav Lachman
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