> 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 ----