Is log_in_vain really good or really bad?

[Eugene Grosbein]

"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