NEVERMIND! (was: Local Denial of Service: logger(1))

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message <2091.1401074804 at 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.