> > > Again, it's not a fix, it's a feature. Not being able to mess with > > > counters (logging or otherwise) is a feature. It may be a feature that > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > you can do without, but that decision is not to be made lightly. > > > > I'm _saying_ to create a completely separate counter which has nothing to > > do with accounting. > > See above.
I did see above. If the sole purpose of a counter is to turn _off_ a feature to prevent DoS attacks, and it is clearly desirable that the admin (or a representative entity such as a monitoring system) would want to be able to re-enable the logging under those same terms at some admin-specified interval, how exactly would you choose to implement this? Please, be specific. If zeroing a counter whose sole purpose in life is to control logging output presents a problem for you, perhaps some other alternative is possible. I'm not quite sure what it would be. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgr...@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
