[CentOS] rsyslog listening on high port

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 18:25:06 UTC 2018


On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 14:11, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>
> Attempting to lookup why rsyslogd is listening on the high port
> UDP/51427.    Have not succeeded in what this port is used for and what
> directive controls what interface it binds to.
>
> [root at bedrock ~]# netstat --listen --inet --program --numeric | grep syslog
> udp  0  0 0.0.0.0:51427  0.0.0.0:*   66655/rsyslogd
>

I don't think that is really rsyslogd running.. first rsyslogd usually
is running with a much lower pid as it starts early on. All the boxes
I saw had it running under 1000. If the system is set up to actually
listen to the internet it will look like

[root at log01 ~][PROD]# netstat --list --inet --program --numeric | grep rsys
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:514             0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      1078/rsyslogd
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5000            0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      1078/rsyslogd
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:514             0.0.0.0:*
         1078/rsyslogd

and those are set in /etc/rsyslogd.conf

[root at log01 ~][PROD]# egrep '514|5000' /etc/rsyslog.conf
$UDPServerRun 514
$InputTCPServerRun 514
$InputTCPServerRun 5000

I would do a ps auxww | grep 66655 and see what is running and then
check to see if that binary is what it is supposed to be.


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