> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rsyslog- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:07 PM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] rsyslogd security questions/comments [snip]
> Yes, many applications drop privilages (and optionally chroot) after > starting up. > > I suspect that changing rsyslog to do this would be a fair bit of work > (among other things it can't do a full restart without full privilages, > so > the historic HUP behavior couldn't work) Yes, the traditional HUP behavior is simply incompatible with dropping privileges. But I assume that someone who configures rsyslogd in such a way knows what he does and thus changes config-reload scripts away from HUP to a real reload. Rainer _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
