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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:47:43 -0600
From:      Miguel <mmiranda@123.com.sv>
To:        Halid Faith <maslak@ihlas.net.tr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What does udp port 514 use?
Message-ID:  <4420585F.1000006@123.com.sv>
In-Reply-To: <000d01c64d1d$95d2ac40$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym>
References:  <000d01c64d1d$95d2ac40$dc96eed5@ihlasnetym>

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Halid Faith wrote:

>2 - When I type netstat -na  I see that udp port 514 is open as below
>udp4       0      0  *.514                  *.*
>udp6       0      0  *.514                  *.*
>
>Should I close this port ? then How can I close this port?
>  
>

shiva2# grep 514 /etc/services
syslog          514/udp

that is the syslog port for remote hosts' events , you can disable it 
adding this to your rc.conf


syslog_flags="-ss"

---Miguel




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