From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 17 21:21:25 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E2316A580 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:21:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cryx-freebsd@h3q.com) Received: from mail.h3q.com (mail.h3q.com [217.13.206.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F241113C4B8 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:21:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cryx-freebsd@h3q.com) Received: (qmail 18159 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2007 20:54:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.23.144?) (cryx@85.178.108.2) by mail.h3q.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 17 Jan 2007 20:54:40 -0000 Message-ID: <45AE8D0C.7050506@h3q.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:54:36 +0100 From: Philipp Wuensche User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Agus References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Disable syslogd 514.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:21:25 -0000 Agus wrote: > Hi.... > doing a netstat -an i see that syslog is listening in UDP port 514.....i am > trying to disable it, but no luck.... > i checked the rc.conf but there is nothing there.....what do u > recommend? to > disable it or to leave it? > I do not use the machine as a remote syslog server so i cant see the > use.....but who knows.. The -ss option of syslogd will disable all network sockets, so setting this in rc.conf will help: syslogd_flags="-ss" Don't forget to restart syslogd of course. greetings philipp