-s

Select ``secure'' mode, in which syslogd does not listen on a UDP socket but only communicates over a UNIX domain socket. This is valuable when the machine on which sys- logd runs is subject to attack over the network and it is desired that the machine be protected from attempts to remotely fill logs and similar attacks.

syslogd=YES syslogd_flags="-s" # -s "secure" unix domain only