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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:54:36 +0100
From:      Philipp Wuensche <cryx-freebsd@h3q.com>
To:        Agus <agus.262@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Disable syslogd 514..
Message-ID:  <45AE8D0C.7050506@h3q.com>
In-Reply-To: <fda61bb50701171233x1e866casaed5a92a167cd54f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <fda61bb50701171233x1e866casaed5a92a167cd54f@mail.gmail.com>

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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




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