vince <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sunday, March 8, 2020 at 10:50:20 AM UTC-7, mwall wrote:
>>
>> port 514 is the default for remote system logging (rsyslog). not sure why
>> anyone would ever do localhost:514...
>>
> rsyslog to me doesn't mean remote, it's just one of many possible syslog
> daemons you could have installed, so I could see it being used that way if
> you wanted to force logging through a daemon that can do rewrite rules etc.
So I don't understand why it makes sense to have this compiled in, if
it's sysadmin's choice vs the standard interface on a particular OS.
FWIW, on NetBSD syslogd can be made to listen on UDP port 514. Actually,
this is the default beahvior of syslogd, but the standard startup
scripts pass -s ("secure") to not listen to the network.
(This being in weewx at all is surprising to me; I would expect the
logging module to have any necessary per-os defaults. But I am very
likely not understanding something. On BSDs there is syslog(3), a
library interface to syslog, and programs using that do not have to know
how to talk to syslogd. But that is not in POSIX, I'm pretty sure.)
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