Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:56:44 -0400 From: Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com> To: "Timothy R. Platt" <tplatt@nethampton.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scaring the bezeesus out of your system admin as a normal user: Message-ID: <19980824115644.19643@kublai.com> In-Reply-To: <v04003a02b20588b40c80@[204.141.112.245]>; from Timothy R. Platt on Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 05:55:35AM -0700 References: <199808211915.MAA18409@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980821183339.26762D-100000@Tyr.office.EFN.org> <v04003a02b20588b40c80@[204.141.112.245]>
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On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 05:55:35AM -0700, Timothy R. Platt wrote: > Seems to me that if you specify -s, not only do you reject incoming > packets, but you are prevented from sending packets to a remote logging > machine as well. No, you can send packets even if you use -s; -s only prevents a bind to the syslog port. > -a will cause syslog to accept packets from a remote machine which would be > ignored by default. I don't think you need -s with -a. But the man page is unclear in this respect. -- Brian Cully <shmit@erols.com> ``And when one of our comrades was taken prisoner, blindfolded, hung upside-down, shot, and burned, we thought to ourselves, `These are the best experiences of our lives''' -Pathology (Joe Frank, Somewhere Out There) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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