Re: bin/44672: syslogd has no option to specify source port

[Martin Schütte <mschuett%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/44672; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?UTF-8?B?TWFydGluIFNjaMO8dHRl?= <mschuett%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/44672: syslogd has no option to specify source port
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:25:12 +0100

 On 03/03/11 14:20, martin%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 > There is no option to explicitly specify a fixed port for outgoing syslog
 > messages to other syslogds (or at least one to specify 514).
 
 The current syslogd just skips the bind() in SecureMode.
 
 I agree it is a reasonable expectation to use the well known UDP port
 for sending and it is easy to fix. Patches for netbsd-5 and -current are at:
 
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/mschuett/syslogd_5base-bind_in_securemode.diff
 
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/mschuett/syslogd_current-bind_in_securemode.diff
 
 -- 
 Martin