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Joe Abley wrote: Current versions of Linux appear to be safe. This is from the syslog package that ships with RedHat version 8 (sysklogd package version 1.4.1-10). NAME sysklogd - Linux system logging utilities. ... OPTIONS ... -r This option will enable the facility to receive message from the network using an internet domain socket with the syslog service (see services(5)). The default is to not receive any messages from the network. This option is introduced in version 1.3 of the sysklogd package. Please note that the default behavior is the opposite of how older versions behave, so you might have to turn this on. The default RedHat installation does not turn on this option. Looking through RedHat's FTP server, their 4.2 distribution (the oldest on on their server) is at version 1.3-15, and therefore incorporates this feature. This release has a README dated 1997, and the sysklogd package on their server is dated December 1996. I would assume that other Linux distributions from the same era (1997 through the present) would also have sysklogd version 1.3 or later, and therefore have this feature. -- David
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