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EFF's Logfinder
clonebarkins writes "EFF has just released a new software tool called "logfinder" to help server admins find (and delete) unnecessary log files on their boxen. "By finding unwanted log files, logfinder informs system administrators when their servers are collecting personal data and gives them the opportunity to turn logging off if it isn't gathering information necessary for administering the system.""
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Most administrators already have effective methods of managing their logs. They crontab the hell out of it.
God forbid professional sysadmins should be expected to understand how their services are configured and what files are being written. If I were a user on one of their systems, sendmail log files would be the least of my concern.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Can I have a tool to locate and delete people who use the word 'boxen'? GPL preferably.
rather than letting the admin delete the logs, it instead automatically sent logs to the management.
Around here, we call that "logrotate."
"No problem. I have the capacity to do infinite work so long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."-Dilbert
Any tool could probably be used for evil. For instance I have a calendar on my wall. If I took it down and rolled it up, I could probably beat you half way to death with enough strong blows.
Yeah, sure. You guys are so paranoid, next you're going to be telling me that the flesh-reanimation technology I've been working on can be used for evil too.
> Once a month I clean out everything we don't need, including "email
> logs" and other stupid shit MS piles up in various places in the operating
> system. If/When the lawyers/cops come knocking, I can point to the policy
> and scheduled reminder and say "sorry, dont have that".
"...but if you'd have come yesterday you could have had 30 days worth".
I think I prefer the policy apparantly in place at www.cryptome.org, which is to delete all your logs every 24 hours.
Yeah, sure. You guys are so paranoid, next you're going to be telling me that the flesh-reanimation technology I've been working on can be used for evil too.
Sure can. My wife just used your invention to bring back to life her dead mother. That is nothing but pure evil, believe you me.
I like my dinosaurs feathery, and my pterosaurs hairy (or is it pycnofibery?)
Slashdot won't do you no good for new vulnerabilities. They are always a few days late with the news, and most system admins will have patched by then!
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