On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:49:07 +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > A while ago dhill@ pointed out that syslogd TCP sockets will stay > open forever if a client aborts the connection silently. As syslogd > does not write anything into incoming connections, it will not > recognize failure and the socket will stay forever. > > Setting TCP keep alive on the listen socket will prevent that. Note > that outgoing connections don't need it as syslogd will write data > into them.
OK millert@ - todd
