SUMMARY: DU 4.0D and Perl 5.005_02: broken syslog

From: Robert L. McMillin <rlm_at_SYSECA-US.COM>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:47:16 -0700

Thanks to everyone who responded on both lists. Had I scanned the DU
4.0D relnotes closer, I would have found that there's a wonderful (not!)
new security measure for syslogd that prevents access to anyone using
the UDP syslog port, even if it's on the same machine. The URL for this
is

 http://www.unix.digital.com/faqs/publications/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V40D_HTML/AQTLMCTE/DOCU_005.HTM#no_id_102

I know reading the perl5-porters mailing list archive that some of the
Perl folks are considering using the /dev/log interface; it ought to be
the default on DU boxes, though this would definitely make the
Sys::Syslog code somewhat bigger.
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Received on Thu Oct 15 1998 - 17:48:22 NZDT

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