From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Mon 03 Jul 2000 - 12:07:18 IST
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 11:43:44AM +0100, SP K wrote:
> !!! that was the answer THANK-YOU!! ..i had syslog
> commented out of /etc/services <- stupid me!! ,thnx a
> mil its working perfect now :)
for anyone trying to secure a unix/linux box here's a tip: leave
/etc/services alone. /etc/services is an informational file used by the
libc function getservbyname(3) and friends. it does *not* cause anything
to listen on those ports, and while some programs (like that version of
syslogd) will die and not start w/o the right entry in /etc/services,
it's a few extra lines of c to make syslogd default to using 514/udp if
it can't lookup syslog with a getservbyname call.
inetd.conf, boot time rc scripts and root crontab files are much more
important things to edit for the security concerned.
kevin
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