[1569] in bugtraq
Re: syslog (WAS: chroot'ed environment?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Urban)
Fri Apr 21 11:49:36 1995
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 14:32:21 +0200 (METDST)
From: Urban <Urban.Kaveus@edt.ericsson.se>
To: Marc Samama <marc@tky.icdc.fr>
Cc: mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199504210059.JAA09483@hibiya>
> Actually, it is exactly what I have done yesterday. It is pretty easy (check the
> INET_SYSLOG define from BSD's libc/syslog.c) and it works very well. I didnt
> have to change anything from what I installed previously. (syslogd, /dev/syslog
> or whatever.)
>
> I didnt like very much the idea of putting /dev/syslog in the ftp area,
> so I choose to do this.
>
> The only thing that bothers me is that I didnt want syslogd to listen on its
> UDP port, but i guess I will just check the address of the incoming packets
> against the loopback address. (Didn't try that yet, thougth.)
>
> Marc.
More than a year ago I picked up this hack on the TIS fwtk maillist.
It disables the TIS syslogd from listening to the UDP port.
Urban Kaveus
LM Ericsson Data AB
-------------------------------------->8-------------
*** syslogd.c.by_uka Thu Jan 5 18:34:38 1995
--- syslogd.c.original Sat Nov 5 00:30:58 1994
***************
*** 311,322 ****
(void) signal(SIGHUP, init);
for (;;) {
-
- /* Changed 940225 by Urban K. Do not read anything from the network
int nfds, readfds = FDMASK(funix) | inetm | klogm;
- */
-
- int nfds, readfds = FDMASK(funix) | klogm;
errno = 0;
dprintf("readfds = %#x\n", readfds);
--- 311,317 ----
