From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 Description of problem: When forwarding syslog messages to other hosts via '@' syntax in syslog.conf, syslogd appears to listen on 514 from 'netstat -nlp'. Is there a reason why forwarding messages to remote hosts would cause the local server to accept remote messages? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Add '*.debug @syslog_server' to /etc/syslog.conf Actual Results: syslogd listends on UDP 514 Expected Results: Should not listen on any port. Additional info:
This is an error on my part. Looking into the source I see that the binding to port 514 is also used for forwarding messages. It does not actually listen for messages unless the option is provided. I've tested this by configuring another machine to syslog to a test machine, and the incoming messages are not processed.