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Date:      Wed, 06 Jan 1999 11:39:04 +0100
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel/syslogd hack
Message-ID:  <7158.915619144@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 6 Jan 1999 20:35:23 %2B1100 (EDT)"
References:  <199901060935.UAA24071@cheops.anu.edu.au>

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> In what I think is a "bug" (or missing feature), commenting out syslog/514
> in /etc/services causes syslogd not to start rather than to just not open
> up the UDP port (2.2.5) but "syslogd -s" shuts down the UDP port for
> reception of syslog messages, so that's covered.

No, "syslogd -s" does *not* shut down the UDP port - at least not in

$Id: syslogd.c,v 1.46 1998/12/29 23:14:50 cwt Exp $

Instead the packets are received and then logged as

"syslogd: discarded %d unwanted packets in secure mode, last from %s"

I would much prefer that it actually not listened to the UDP port at all.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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