Disable syslogd 514..

[Philipp Wuensche]

Agus wrote:
> Hi....
> doing a netstat -an i see that syslog is listening in UDP port 514.....i am
> trying to disable it, but no luck....
> i checked the rc.conf but there is nothing there.....what do u
> recommend? to
> disable it or to leave it?
> I do not use the machine as a remote syslog server so i cant see the
> use.....but who knows..

The -ss option of syslogd will disable all network sockets, so setting
this in rc.conf will help:

syslogd_flags="-ss"

Don't forget to restart syslogd of course.

greetings
philipp