Re: excessive paranoia in syslogd(8)?

2001-01-22 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:20:39 -0800, "Crist J. Clark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you want to or need to use network sockets, # syslogd -a localhost Should provide the behavior you want. I.e., no security whatsoever. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: excessive paranoia in syslogd(8)?

2001-01-22 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:40:00PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:20:39 -0800, "Crist J. Clark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you want to or need to use network sockets, # syslogd -a localhost Should provide the behavior you want. I.e., no security whatsoever.

Re: excessive paranoia in syslogd(8)?

2001-01-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Steve Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: excessive paranoia in syslogd(8)?

2001-01-20 Thread Steve Price
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:20:39PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: # # You can write to the /dev/log (usually symlinked to /var/run/log) # socket with '-s' set. # # If you want to or need to use network sockets, # # # syslogd -a localhost # # Should provide the behavior you want. As you noted

Re: excessive paranoia in syslogd(8)?

2001-01-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Steve Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aha! I must have read that manpage a dozen times and I didn't catch on, but if I do this it works like I would expect even with '-s'. ...and even with -ss, which you might as well use unless you intend to log *to* remote hosts, or are sufficiently

Re: excessive paranoia in syslogd(8)?

2001-01-20 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:39:37PM -0600, Steve Price wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:20:39PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: # # You can write to the /dev/log (usually symlinked to /var/run/log) # socket with '-s' set. # # If you want to or need to use network sockets, # # # syslogd