Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@iki.fi.NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> Michael Zawrotny wrote:
> > Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@INVALIDiki.fi> wrote:
> >
> >> I moved my Apache to a non-standard high port when I
> >> got tired of the IIS buffer overflow crack attempts
> >> in my log. It was nearly a megabyte a day, an attempt
> >> used little over a kilobyte each.

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> The website is not for public consumption, its primary
> use is to provide a platform for my Squirrelmail.

[ snip ]

> > If you object to wading through the log files trying to pick out
> > the few relevant lines in the mass of IIS attempts
>
> That's not the reason, but the disk consumption: 1000 attempts
> a day eats more than a megabyte a day.

I wouldn't worry too much about that, logrotate will keep that down to
a pretty small amount of space, especially when compared to Apache and
Squirrelmail.


Mike

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