On 1 Jun 2007, Jens Axboe told this:
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> I think Anand is assuming that because syslog may coalesce identical
> messages into "repeated foo times" in the messages file, that it's not a
> dos. That is of course wrong.

Not all syslog daemons do that, anyway. (syslog-ng doesn't, for one.)

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