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Date:      21 Jan 2001 06:29:02 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: excessive paranoia in syslogd(8)?
Message-ID:  <xzp1ytxh3s1.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Steve Price's message of "Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:49:44 -0600"
References:  <20010120224944.I387@bonsai.knology.net>

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Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> writes:
> Is it just me or does 'syslogd -s' exhibit just a little bit too
> much paranoia about allowing socket connections?  I was futzing
> with a Perl script that needed to syslog(3) some stuff and after
> much hair pulling I realized that 'syslogd -s' didn't even allow
> connections from localhost.

RTFM ('perldoc Sys::Syslog' in this case, pay special attention to
setlogsock())

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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