From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 30 10:22: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE8F37B400 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:22:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0UIMFx73597; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:22:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:22:15 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke To: Thomas Cannon Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?adrian=20kok?= , , Subject: Re: mrtg In-Reply-To: <20020130100052.B585-100000@stereophonic.noops.org> Message-ID: <20020130132153.R72797-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Thomas Cannon wrote: > > On the FreeBSD machine, you need to tell syslogd to open a listening > > socket at 514/udp as well as actually accept remote messages. To do this, > > add the following to /etc/rc.conf: > > > > syslogd_flags="" > > > > While this will work as advertized, it does also allow other people to log > to your machine. Potential problems are a) people can fill your hard drive > for laughs and b)if syslogd has a security problem, you've now got one, > too. > > Man syslogd explains how to use the -a flag for an 'allowed peer' which > I'd encourage using. Excellent point. Joe > > I tend to be a little paranoid, but it hasn't hurt me yet. > > Thomas > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message