Re: security check output, kernel log message

From: Antoine Beaupre (LMC) (Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca)
Date: 06/28/01 

From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca>
To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:26:22 -0400

I also had my share of "trouble" with that. Sometimes, it's strictly
impossible to have boot dmesg. The kernel dmesg buffer gets overflown,
this is understandable. But /var/log/dmesg.today *also* gets trashed.

isn't there a nice little file somewhere that keeps *boot* (not
console!) messages?

A.

Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:45:29 +0200, Alexander Langer wrote:
>
>
>>>>5.255.255:137 in via xl1
>>>>
>>>What does this mean?
>>>
>>That is a truncated log from another day.
>>
>
> What I've wondered for a while is how to flush that out so I stop
> getting it in my daily security check output. I still have a load of
> 'em left over from when I turned log_in_vain on a few weeks ago.
>
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
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