Thanks, I'll probably just stick with port forwarding and iptables. -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 10:57 AM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > The only way to actually do it is to start as root and then drop privs to a > different user. That's how the pros do it. > > > On Sat, 8 Feb 2014, Jeremy MountainJohnson wrote: > >> Does anyone know how to listen to to say, 514 UDP, without being root? I'm >> working with splunk and would prefer to keep it running contained within >> it's own user:group. The Goog affords >> this,http://stackoverflow.com/questions/413807/is-there-a-way-for-non-root-proce >> sses-to-bind-to-privileged-ports-1024-on-l, is it the most efficient way >> to >> go about this? >> >> Worst case scenario I would use iptables to redirect, but would prefer to >> leave syslog on it's standard port. >> >> Thanks for any insight, >> >> -- >> Jeremy MountainJohnson >> Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com >> >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list