To add to Shafik's statement, now all you have to do to is to put a system under high (log) load for any attack to go possibly unlogged? This leaves me somewhat sleepless... --- Shafik Yaghmour <shafikat_private> wrote: > So if you have a high system load it is okay to have some of the > syslog messages lost? Hmm, I dunno, IMHO it is never okay, I mean why > should you open up the opportunity at all. You know, security based on > something being "not so prone to failure" doesn't exactly make me feel > warm and cozy. > > On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Jefferson Ogata wrote: > > > I think it should be pointed out that datagram messages to a Unix > domain socket > > don't suffer the same network load losses that datagram messages > across an > > ethernet do. The quality of reception will generally be based purely > on system > > load, since an external network is not involved. You won't be losing > lots of log > > messages on account of a large file transfer between two other hosts. > > > > Therefore, I think reliance on datagram-based syslog to a Unix domain > socket is > > not so prone to failure as some other posters have implied. > > > > -- > > Jefferson Ogata <jogataat_private> National Oceanographic Data > Center > > You can't step into the same river twice. -- Herakleitos > > > > ========================================================================== > --"the more you know and understand the more you must know and > understand > .. knowledge is an unsatiable hunger .. which makes life easier and > at > the same time harder .... knowledge is a paradox w/ no resolution > just > a boundless function of human nature .... knowledge is a trap which > we > embrace and which we run away from .... and in the end the only > escape > is death .... or maybe not "<grin>-- > ========================================================================== > -Unite for Java! - http://www.javalobby.org- > -This message transmitted on 100% recycled > electrons- > -Save the whales, Feed the hungry, Free the > mallocs- > > > Two cats on a roof, > Which one falls off first? > The one with the smaller mew. > ===== Cheers - A. Steinmetz --------------------------------------------- Beam me up, Scotty. There is no intelligent life down in Redmond. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
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