From owner-freebsd-audit Mon Jul 16 2:25: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76FDD37B405 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 02:25:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@starjuice.net) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.seasidesoftware.co.za) by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.31 #1) id 15M4d8-0001BU-00; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:25:30 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd: bind to localhost only In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:54:48 EST." <20010713135448.A67153@madman.nectar.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:25:30 +0200 Message-ID: <4555.995275530@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:54:48 EST, "Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote: > The following patch adds a "-L" option to syslogd to force binding to > localhost only. This is useful for running syslogd in a chroot'd > environment, where the log socket will not be available. This seems like an awfully specific kludge. First, what does this give me that -a and -l don't? Second, assuming I'm missing something above, why not implement the option such that the operator can choose to bind to _any_ address(es) using some kind of -i option? Why _only_ localhost? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message