On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:54:02AM +1000, Dave Fitch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
[snip]
> log files etc rotate these days rather than continually growing.
> I just have root and swap most of the time (sometimes /opt as well)
> except for my gateway/fileserver/etc machine which has several
> partitions for /, /opt, /home, /var/spool (I run a small news server)
> and so on.
I am sorry but you missed the point, logfiles get swapped by logrotate
and that doesnt happen every 5 minutes. If you have only ONE partition
and you get SYM attacked with IPCHAINS logging the attack, you will NOT be able to
log in (or some other kind of TCPIP based thing, there are lots).
In fact, if you read some of the guidelines "Howto make a *UNIX* box
secure" and "How to prevent certain things" than you will see
that my suggestion of putting log files and /tmp into their OWN partition
is suggested all over the place.
.... and making more then one partition has a number of other nice features.
Jobst
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