[4253] in linux-net channel archive
Re: /dev/alert ? (was: Re: SYN floods)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henning Schmiedehausen)
Sat Aug 31 11:33:43 1996
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: 31 Aug 1996 14:40:32 +0200
From: barnard@forge.franken.de (Henning Schmiedehausen)
ecki@inka.de (Bernd Eckenfels) writes:
>Well, I expect a lot of messages which needs to be analyced automatically.
>Therefore it would need to be implemeted into klogd binary. Would be a
>option if we can agree on a common syntax for those parseable messages.
Let's steal, errr borrow the NNTP idea: Use a numeric code with an optional
ASCII text. The number is enough for machine decoding and the text is for us
human beings.
Ciao
Henning
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