in reply to Serious & personal meditation

Whenever I reach a new level, I check and discover that merlyn is further ahead of me than ever before. The good thing about achieving sainthood is that vroom is only 1003064 credits ahead of me. It's important to have attainable goals!

XP is fun, but the things that excite me are learning new things frrom others, and sharing my own interests and attitudes. My hot spot at the moment is geting into Log4Perl .... it combines the functionality of debugger print statements, emailing or messaging to pagers for a crisis, and logging usage, status and security info.

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Re: Re: Serious & personal meditation
by danb (Friar) on Apr 30, 2004 at 22:44 UTC
    My hot spot at the moment is geting into Log4Perl .... it combines the functionality of debugger print statements, emailing or messaging to pagers for a crisis, and logging usage, status and security info.
    How do you use Log4perl for security info? Do you make a category for it? Add a priority level?

    -Dan

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      I'm not actually using it now, I'm considering a small private project to explore Log4Perl.

      As far as work situations are concerned, what I meant by security info isn't very different from Apache logging, it's just a matter of context.

      In particular, at the bank where I worked last winter (hi Vlad), they had a special account WXYZ which ran certain programs, and people would log on as WXYZ and run scripts. Well, that's not very different from logging on as root. So we came up with an suid script named wxyz which would let outside people run programs uzing the WXYZ account ... a first step in migrating away from SU anonymity.

      Previously, you knew that fifty people had logged on as WXYZ and one of them had run 'rm -rf *'. With the new system, you knew who had done what, because the system logged the requests.

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