Dear colleagues, for now, if log is configured to be rotated in time manner, its size is not checked, so /var/log may be DoSed by some service (in our case, it was mad DHCP client which fills up our /var/log with dhcpd log; our newsyslog.conf line was /var/log/dhcpd 640 5 5000 _at_T00 JC The following simple patch should fix the problem. Any objection to commit this? Thanks. Index: usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c,v retrieving revision 1.107.2.1 diff -u -r1.107.2.1 newsyslog.c --- usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c 8 Mar 2008 01:00:25 -0000 1.107.2.1 +++ usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c 12 May 2009 09:48:00 -0000 _at__at_ -466,7 +466,8 _at__at_ printf("does not exist, skipped%s.\n", temp_reason); } } else { - if (ent->flags & CE_TRIMAT && !force && !rotatereq) { + if ((ent->trsize < 0 || ent->fsize < ent->trsize) && + ent->flags & CE_TRIMAT && !force && !rotatereq) { diffsecs = ptimeget_diff(timenow, ent->trim_at); if (diffsecs < 0.0) { /* trim_at is some time in the future. */ -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck_at_FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck_at_rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Tue May 12 2009 - 08:09:28 UTC
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