Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:50:36 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c Message-ID: <353E662C.8AD6A62@san.rr.com> References: <199804221954.DAA12177@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > Argueably, syslogd should not listen by default and should require a switch > to activate network listening, but that breaks POLA when people do a 'make > world' or upgrade. I would prefer that rc.conf ship with the -s flag included. This is one of the changes I always make when I install a system for a new customer and I can't think of any good reason to have syslogd listening by default. Anyone smart enough to be doing remote logging is smart enough to frob the settings. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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