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Subject: Re: Set options to deamons
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On Tuesday 27 September 2005 18:32, Efren Bravo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I set options to deamons?
>
> For instance, I've been reading a security doc and it says: "Syslogd can
> be attacked directly and it's strongly recommended that you use -s option
> whenever possible, and the -a option otherwise".
>
> If Syslogd start when the OS start, how do I set the -s option.
>

Set 

   syslogd_flags="-s" 

in rc.conf.  

However, if you look in  /etc/defaults/rc.conf , you will find that that is 
already the default.