svn commit: r314585 - head/usr.sbin/syslogd
Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)
yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Fri Mar 3 07:15:24 UTC 2017
> On Mar 2, 2017, at 23:13, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 2, 2017, at 22:49, Hiroki Sato <hrs at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>> Ngie Cooper <ngie at FreeBSD.org> wrote
>> in <201703030613.v236DxDl010255 at repo.freebsd.org>:
>>
>> ng> Author: ngie
>> ng> Date: Fri Mar 3 06:13:59 2017
>> ng> New Revision: 314585
>> ng> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/314585
>> ng>
>> ng> Log:
>> ng> Correct verb change for service => `*` after r314563
>> ng>
>> ng> `*` means that packets will be received from a remote peer on any port.
>> ng> Since the point of interest is the syslogd instance (not the remote peer),
>> ng> the appropriate verb is "received", not "sent".
>> ng>
>> ng> MFC after: 1 month
>> ng> X-MFC with: r314563
>> ng> Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
>> ng>
>> ng> Modified:
>> ng> head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
>> ng>
>> ng> Modified: head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
>> ng> ==============================================================================
>> ng> --- head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 Fri Mar 3 06:06:27 2017 (r314584)
>> ng> +++ head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 Fri Mar 3 06:13:59 2017 (r314585)
>> ng> @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ A
>> ng> .Ar service
>> ng> of
>> ng> .Ql \&*
>> ng> -allows packets to be sent from any UDP port.
>> ng> +allows packets to be received from any UDP port.
>> ng> The default
>> ng> .Ar service
>>
>> It is incorrect that syslogd receives a UDP packet on any local port
>> when a "*" is specified. This address validation is done by using
>> the source port number in a received UDP packet, so the point of
>> interest is the remote peer.
>>
>> How about "...accepts UDP packets sent with any source port" or
>> something?
>
> Yeah, that’s more accurate.
How about this?
-Ngie
$ svn diff usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
Index: usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
===================================================================
--- usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 (revision 314585)
+++ usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 (working copy)
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
.Ar service
of
.Ql \&*
-allows packets to be received from any UDP port.
+allows UDP packets to be sent with any source port.
The default
.Ar service
is
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