Glen Barber wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 06:04:34PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
Hi,
I see it many times before, but never take a time to post about it.
Scrips in /etc/periodic are grepping logs for yesterday date, but
without specifying year (because some logs do not have year logged).
This results in false positive alerts in security e-mails from our
lightly loaded servers, where logs are not enough rotated.
For example /var/log/auth.log is 62KB (838 lines) and contains entries
for almost 2 years.
Today I get following alert:
Feb 15 22:36:03 XXX sshd[89758]: Invalid user t1na from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Feb 15 22:50:56 XXX sshd[89850]: Invalid user medina from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Feb 15 22:50:57 XXX sshd[89852]: Invalid user student from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Feb 15 22:50:58 XXX sshd[89854]: Invalid user student from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
(hostname and IP are replaced by X)
But looking in to auth.log I found zero entries from yesterday - Feb 15
entries were logged 1 year ago!
So I propose to set all daemons / syslog to log year too (as %Y) and
change yesterday=`date -v-1d "+%b %e "` to yesterday=`date -v-1d "+%b
%e %Y"` in periodic scripts.
The affected scripts are:
460.status-mail-rejects
470.status-named
800.loginfail
900.tcpwrap
Maybe some others, I did just a quick grep -rsn 'date -v-1d'
/etc/periodic and I don't know the logic used in other script to get
yesterday messages.
What do you think about it?
Rotating the appropriate logs daily/weekly/monthly/whatever will silence
these false alarms.
My post was not about "how can I fix it localy", but what sould be done
in FreeBSD distribuition, because these false alerts were made by
default FreeBSD configuration (coincidence of newsyslog settings,
periodic scripts and log format)
Miroslav Lachman
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