From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 20 21:29:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC5537B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:29:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA63804; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:29:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Steve Price Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: excessive paranoia in syslogd(8)? References: <20010120224944.I387@bonsai.knology.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 21 Jan 2001 06:29:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: Steve Price's message of "Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:49:44 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Price writes: > 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. RTFM ('perldoc Sys::Syslog' in this case, pay special attention to setlogsock()) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message