Re: syslogd listen keep alive

2020-09-14 Thread Theo de Raadt
Excellent! Alexander Bluhm wrote: > Hi, > > A while ago dhill@ pointed out that syslogd TCP sockets will stay > open forever if a client aborts the connection silently. As syslogd > does not write anything into incoming connections, it will not > recognize failure and the socket will stay for

Re: syslogd listen keep alive

2020-09-14 Thread Todd C . Miller
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:49:07 +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > A while ago dhill@ pointed out that syslogd TCP sockets will stay > open forever if a client aborts the connection silently. As syslogd > does not write anything into incoming connections, it will not > recognize failure and the socket

syslogd listen keep alive

2020-09-14 Thread Alexander Bluhm
Hi, A while ago dhill@ pointed out that syslogd TCP sockets will stay open forever if a client aborts the connection silently. As syslogd does not write anything into incoming connections, it will not recognize failure and the socket will stay forever. Setting TCP keep alive on the listen socket