Marco Davids <mdavidsat_private> writes: > Russ suggested: >> sendsys:*:*:drop > I wonder, whats wrong with sendsys:*.*:log=sendsys ? > (and logging all, like version, the others as well) Because in order for INN to log something, it tries to lock the logfile, and to lock the logfile it has to spawn a separate shlock process and then clean up the lock afterwards, and INN's locking is known not to be that robust (at least currently) under high loads. Not to mention that it's CPU- and process-intensive. Since the original poster was worrying about a DoS attack on his news server, the above has a lot less impact than trying to log the posts. If one really wants a log of incoming sendsys messages, under INN you can just create control.sendsys and they'll show up there as regular news articles (and you can set whatever expire you want, etc.). -- Russ Allbery (rraat_private) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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