Is log_in_vain really good or really bad?

[Jesper Wallin]

> "Crist J. Clark" wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:28:35PM +0200, z3l3zt at hackunite.net wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> > My server box is a Intel Celeron 733Mhz, 384Mb of RAM.. yet it's slow from
>> > time to time since I only run ATA66 due to the old motherboard. When this
>> > "attack" occured yesterday, the box almost died and the box were working
>> > 100%.. all users who were logged in got "spammed" since the default
>> > *.emerg in /etc/syslog.conf is set to "*" ..
>>
>> Not sure what that has to do with anything. The log_in_vain messages get
>> logged at "info" level. What messages were your users seeing?
>> --
>> Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark at alum.mit.edu
>
> I believe that was a bug in syslogd and this bug is already fixed
> in both of CURRENT and STABLE for not so long.
>
> Eugene
>

Fixed you say.. I run FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5, yet it's there..


Regards,
Jesper Wallin