From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 20 20:50: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B825D37B401 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 20:49:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from bonsai.knology.net (user-24-214-88-8.knology.net [24.214.88.8]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0L4njo18903 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:49:45 -0600 (CST) Received: (from steve@localhost) by bonsai.knology.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0L4nia04681 for current@freebsd.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:49:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from steve) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:49:44 -0600 From: Steve Price To: current@freebsd.org Subject: excessive paranoia in syslogd(8)? Message-ID: <20010120224944.I387@bonsai.knology.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Apparently Perl opens a socket connection to syslog and with the '-s' syslogd doesn't read from socket connections either from localhost or from hosts specified with -a. This is a bad thing IMHO. Either I open syslogd up to all socket connections (including from localhost) or I can't use syslog from Perl. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message