On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:30:48PM +0200, Heinz Ekker wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:12:32AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > I'm afraid I'm not happy with this because of the possibility of abuse.
> > It seems to me to be something that very, very few sites would actually
> > want to do.
>
> Of course that would offer the possibility of filling up the file
> system, generating fake messages, et al...
A forbid_filter_syslog option could prevent any abuse in user-supplied
filters, if the admin is paranoid enough ;-)
But, as it is, I'm happy as long as my patch applies with new releases.