[wplug] Logging - Message repeated XX times

Pat Barron pat at tiderium.com
Tue Oct 30 11:31:38 EST 2007


On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, scoob8000 wrote:
> How can I prevent the "Message repeated XX times" from showing up in
> say my /var/log/secure log?
>
> Say someone fails 5 times to logon as root, I rather see 5 of the same
> lines then seeing it once and "Previous message repeated 4 times".
>
> The machine in question is running Centos with a 2.6.9 kernel.

I don't have access to a Centos system so I can't directly speak to that. 
I can tell you that invoking syslogd with the "-c" switch will do what you 
want on FreeBSD.  I could not find any analogous function on Debian or 
Fedora 7.

--Pat.


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