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Re: Core Dump as an Intrusion Event


From: Daniel Roesen <droesen () ENTIRE-SYSTEMS COM>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:59:15 +0200

On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:41:05PM +0300, Jarno Huuskonen wrote:
What about adding some code so it can be controlled thru the proc filesystem ?
Like enabling/disabling logging, log only certain programs etc.
(echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/core-logging)
Does this sound feasible/sensible ?

I'm working on this. Logging of coredumps (names core.<processname>.<pid>)
to syslog (via klogd) is already in place, it just needs the sysctl
interface.


Best regards,
Daniel

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