[TUHS] A man easter-egg (gimme gimme gimme)

[Henry Bent]

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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