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Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (der Mouse)
Fri Sep 1 11:12:39 1995

Date:         Thu, 31 Aug 1995 20:40:04 -0400
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From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
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[about the syslog(3) problem]
> [many good points, but...]
> * nfsd in kernel?  It does quite a lot logging if nfsdebug is turned
>   on.

But it does it via /dev/klog (or equivalent), not via syslog(3), thus
it is not a danger any more than frobbing syslog.conf is a cure.

                                        der Mouse

                            mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu

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