Problem with security log

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 01:46:38PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:17:58 -0700
> Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
> 
> > There isn't a 100% reliable way to get rid of this problem.  I've been
> > harping about this for years (sorry to sound like a jerk, but this
> > really is a major problem that keeps coming up and annoys users/admins
> > to no end.
> 
> Or the problem might not be so major, it only shows up on the mailing
> lists about every six months. So maybe those who have the problem learns
> how to live with it.
> If it was a major problem, the mailing lists would be flooded.
> 
> Just my 0.02 eurocents.

I respect your opinion, and you're right, it doesn't come up too
often.

But I classify this problem as high/severe because it makes a mess of
things at the worst time possible -- situations where you absolutely
need reliable output due to the nature of the problem you're dealing
with (debugging a kernel, figuring out how/why something broke in the
kernel, devices complaining about issues, disks reporting problems,
etc.).

Last time I think this came up was in July or August, and prior to that,
March (at least on the lists I'm sub'd to).  John Baldwin had some
useful things to say back in March about the issue.  Relevant thread
posts:

http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg70744.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg70745.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg70746.html

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