What does udp port 514 use?

[Miguel]

Halid Faith wrote:

>2 - When I type netstat -na  I see that udp port 514 is open as below
>udp4       0      0  *.514                  *.*
>udp6       0      0  *.514                  *.*
>
>Should I close this port ? then How can I close this port?
>  
>

shiva2# grep 514 /etc/services
syslog          514/udp

that is the syslog port for remote hosts' events , you can disable it 
adding this to your rc.conf


syslog_flags="-ss"

---Miguel