Re: syslog

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Okay.  That is what's going on.  Guess I will have to depend on the
firewall protecting syslog or move to a more secure variant.

Thanks,
  Jeffrey

Quoting 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
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