From: henry.r.bent@gmail.com (Henry Bent)
Subject: [TUHS] A man easter-egg (gimme gimme gimme)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:30:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBfSBYVnTZZmX4xJREedfF1PRi04RWF7Wf_8ns+87a-cTw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANV78LQzLQacgOhXqQarAChubfFt1_UkczD8Uzct6-Zu0miDQg@mail.gmail.com>
On 21 November 2017 at 18:07, Charles Anthony <charles.unix.pro at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I remember back in the late 90's, the man page for syslogd had a section
> about dealing with network attacks on syslogd servers; several approaches
> described, the last one reading something like
>
> ....if all else fails, find a three for length of sucker rod* and have a
>> discussion with the user.
>>
>
>
> *Sucker rod: 3/4 threaded steel rod, used in oil drilling.
>
>
> It looks like someone edited it out of the man pages since then.
>
It's still in sysklogd, and the manpage is here:
https://linux.die.net/man/8/syslogd
-Henry
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2017-11-21 21:03 Edouard KLEIN
2017-11-21 22:47 ` Charles Anthony
2017-11-21 23:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-21 23:07 ` Charles Anthony
2017-11-21 23:30 ` George Michaelson
2017-11-22 0:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-23 22:39 ` George Michaelson
2017-11-23 19:17 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-23 21:22 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-21 23:30 ` Henry Bent [this message]
2017-11-22 8:48 ` arnold
2017-11-22 9:50 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-11-22 16:00 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-11-22 16:11 ` arnold
[not found] ` <CANCZdfq=KBrpYsMq5BZxjTOce694qVaJ0Pp7aeKHV9ecsBD2YQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-11-23 12:09 ` arnold
[not found] ` <CAJfiPzwvxRaQXanEmvkfeTKp=QMtiAFhCOaWDHyfHRihJ4_nFQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-11-24 15:33 ` Nemo
2017-11-23 19:45 Noel Chiappa
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