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Re: "Dropsafe" logs
From: Jim Laverty <laverty () matrix-one com>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:40:01 -0400
Adaptec has a CD-R package that will allow you to use the CD-R as a write once hard drive, without needing to do a one-time burn. At 10:03 AM 4/8/99 +0000, Scott Crawford wrote:
Greetings -- (My mail agent crashed without having logged the send when I attempted to
send
this before and it hasn't shown up on the list yet, so this *should* be the first time I'm posting this question, but apologies if not.) We are seeking a means to implement real-time write-once "dropsafe" logs
of our
firewall bastion in case of a system failure or a hacker trying to cover
their
tracks. Unfortunately, unless there's an alternative I'm not aware of, a
CD-R
requires a complete disk image in ISO 9660 format to be burned into the writeable disk all at once, which means we either have to wait until we have nearly 640 MB of logfiles to write or waste an awful lot of writeable disk space. We have no operational experience with MO drives here, nor would
we want
to risk those models where write-once settings can be turned off in
software.
Sending output to a line printer is not an attractive option, nor is keeping around a machine that would otherwise be junk just to monitor, for example, serial line output from the bastion host and dump terminal sessions a few
kb at
a time to a permanent logfile. What are others doing to maintain real-time write-once copies of firewall
logs?
Is there write-once media to which data can be written in realtime (i.e.
like a
real filesystem)? AdTHANKSvance, Scott Crawford
Current thread:
- "Dropsafe" logs Scott Crawford (Apr 08)
- Re: "Dropsafe" logs Roelof JT Jonkman (Apr 08)
- Re: "Dropsafe" logs Jim Laverty (Apr 10)
- Re: "Dropsafe" logs Joseph S D Yao (Apr 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: "Dropsafe" logs Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 08)
- RE: "Dropsafe" logs Frank W. Keeney (Apr 10)
- Re: "Dropsafe" logs Bret McDanel (Apr 10)
- Re: "Dropsafe" logs Bret McDanel (Apr 10)
- RE: "Dropsafe" logs Russ (Apr 10)
- Re: "Dropsafe" logs Robert Graham (Apr 10)
- Re: "Dropsafe" logs Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 10)
- Re: "Dropsafe" logs Info Security Office - ITS - Yale Univ. (Apr 10)