Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 13:59:55 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: hart@iserver.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scaring the bezeesus out of your system admin as a normal user: Message-ID: <35E4774B.53D0AA7C@dal.net> References: <199808252033.NAA15314@bubba.whistle.com>
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Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Actually, he's right.. the -current syslogd will bind to the UDP port
> no matter whether -s is specified or not. It does drop packets (and log
> a warning) if it receives anything when -s is set.
>
> It looks like this is done because syslogd still needs a UDP socket
> from which to forward log entries when told to do so in /etc/syslog.conf.
It makes sense IF that directive is there in the conf file. I don't
forward anything and I don't want to receive anything either.
Doug (PS, this is happening on -stable too)
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