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DNA8.1 and klids

The DNA code is run in a kernel thread8.2. Its role is to serialize the access to the network for the log messages. Each time a log message is generated by LIDS and must be sent through the network, it is placed in a message queue. And klids send one message at time through network, sending for example one UDP packet to a remote host, port 514 for a remote syslog daemon, or sending a whole set of packets, to establish a TCP connection, and to dialog with a mail relay, to finnaly send the message by mail. All these operation are done in kernel space, so that even with an unreliable user space, mail can be send.



Biondi Philippe 2000-12-15