cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c

[Christian S.J. Peron]

Robert Watson wrote:

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> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Christian S.J. Peron wrote:
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>> Although I agree this is a good idea, I think it would be more 
>> appropriate to place these kinds of checks in newsyslog(8) so that 
>> other programs logging can take advantage of this.
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> The program generating the log message is presumably the one that has 
> to decide not to generate it if space is low.  Log messages currently 
> come from syslogd.  Are you actually suggesting that syslogd should 
> read the newsylogd.conf file to find settings?
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> Robert N M Watson
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No not necessarily,

Just that perhaps we should add a "This log file can only consume %X of 
the file system is resides on" and rotate the files possibly? I have not 
given it a great deal of thought as of yet. In any case, I am open to 
suggestions for this problem. I agree the feedback loop is not desirable.

I do know however that issues like mail spools temporarily filling up 
the file systems resulting in syslogd stop working is problematic.

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Christian S.J. Peron
csjp at FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD Committer
FreeBSD Security Team