On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:08 AM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Chris Mann wrote:
>
>> $InputTCPServerRun 10514
>>
>
> why use an odd port like this instead of using the standard 514 port?


believe it or not, there is *no standard port* for plain tcp syslog. The
IETF has always objected such requests, saying that this is a too-bad
protocol to obtain a port (I agree on the too-bad part but as its so widely
used it should really have a standard port). tcp/514 is used by something
else.

Rainer
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