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Feb 2, 2004 | 8:14 pm

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by jan_az:

This is a free site - do you know what auditing logon events does to response time and server load - I doubt ( though Dan may correct me )- that this is even turned on</font>

Not having looked in awhile, I'm guessing that in the UBB case it probably dumps (or can be made to dump) the user whose password "missed" and the offending IP to a text log file. On linux (the platform in question), that's not a particularly expensive operation, and you could script it in such a way to rotate and compress this log to save space on a daily basis.

I'd have it turned on.

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