Don't panic.

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Fri Apr 2 09:32:14 EST 2004


Mark wrote:
> There are a couple of instances when sshd will send a message to syslog 
> saying "Don't panic" if you are logging auth.info.  I change this on my 
> site because Big Brother monitors the logs and freaks out when it sees 
> the word panic.  Do you think it is worth submitting a bug report to 
> change the wording to use a word other than panic?

Just maybe, you should be raising this with the Big Brother developers?

I bet there are a dozen ways that I could get the word "panic" into your
syslog, do you think that Big Brother should freak out on all of them?

-d




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