Re: syslog

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Jeffrey L. Taylor said:
> I don't want syslogd listening on the LAN.  According to the man
> pages, it should only do this if invoked with the -r option.  However,
> this does not seem to be the case.  The -r option is not set in
> /etc/init.d/sysklogd and does not show up in the command line in ps, but
> syslogd is still listening on UDP port 514.

are you logging to a remote server? I've seen that syslog does listen on
that port even without -r mode when its logging to a remote server.

if not, run nmap against the host (nmap -sU -p 514 hostname) and see if
it shows up.

nate