From owner-cvs-all Wed Apr 22 14:50:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10230 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:50:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA10194 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:50:48 GMT (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14287; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:50:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <353E662C.8AD6A62@san.rr.com> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:50:36 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0420 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm CC: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c References: <199804221954.DAA12177@spinner.netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Peter Wemm wrote: > Argueably, syslogd should not listen by default and should require a switch > to activate network listening, but that breaks POLA when people do a 'make > world' or upgrade. I would prefer that rc.conf ship with the -s flag included. This is one of the changes I always make when I install a system for a new customer and I can't think of any good reason to have syslogd listening by default. Anyone smart enough to be doing remote logging is smart enough to frob the settings. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message