Re: Fw: [cobalt-users] SMTP problems - HELP!

[Dom Latter <d.latter@xxxxxxx>]

flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > > We got stung by a very simple DOS attack using ping.  Friday night
> > > they started pinging us, and as we were logging every one, some time
> > > over the weekend /var had filled up.  So we could no longer accept
> > > incoming mail.
> 
> och, tho this really points out a number of issues, why did cobalt put
> logs on a small critical partition, why is syslog exempt from quota,
> (and why did you enable logging of pings at log syslog level;0)

Who, me?  This was on an Intel box that I inherited, along with the 
job of looking after it.