Originally posted by: Wouter Liefting
Haven't checked, but if you modify the entry in the /etc/services file, does that work?
Sometimes the port number to use is not hard-coded in the binary executable, but is taken from the /etc/services file. So if you modify the /etc/services entry
syslogd 514/udp
to
syslogd 1234/udp
your daemon may just start listening on 1234 instead of 514, and the client code (e.g. the logger command) may just use 1234 as well.
But like I said, I have not checked this.
If it doesn't work, it should be possible with some cleverly crafted firewall rules.
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