Disable syslogd 514..

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On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:33:13 +0500, Agus <agus.262 at gmail.com> 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..

 From syslogd(8):
"-s      Operate in secure mode.  Do not log messages from remote
          machines.  If specified twice, no network socket will be opened
          at all, which also disables logging to remote machines."
So 'syslogd_flags="-ss"' can be added to /etc/rc.conf.