Re: syslogd -S

[Jim Wise <jwise%draga.com@localhost>]

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On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

>I wanted to fix this differently, so -S would not be necessary.
>
>The ideal state:
>
> 1)    -s controls acceptance of inbound datagrams.
> 2)    syslog.conf controls whether outbound datagrams get sent.
>
>If no "log to other host" rules were set in syslog.conf, and -s were
>in force, no socket would be opened/left open.

I thought of doing it this way.  My main concern was that `-s' was
documented in the man page as behaving the way `-S' behaves now, and in
fact used to behave that way.

This led to a lot of confused users doing double takes (myself
included) when they specified `-s' for syslogd, and ended up with
514/udp open.  My goal was to re-enable the functionality which used to
be there without breaking anything for people counting on the new
behavior of `-s'.

Having said that, I agree that the above description would be ideal, and
will replace my solution with the above if feasible.

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                                Jim Wise
                                jwise%draga.com@localhost

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