From owner-freebsd-security Wed Aug 26 14:01:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17583 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:01:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17562 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:01:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03770; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 13:59:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <35E4774B.53D0AA7C@dal.net> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 13:59:55 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-0823 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Archie Cobbs CC: hart@iserver.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scaring the bezeesus out of your system admin as a normal user: References: <199808252033.NAA15314@bubba.whistle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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) -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. - Yiddish Proverb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message