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Listening on low ports (like 514)

  • March 11, 2025
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Hi all. I have Cribl replacing syslog-ng, but in order to listen on 514 I needed to run it as root. Is there a work-around to drop privileges or switch to user cribl after start-up?

Best answer by Steve Bridge

Copying the answer I received from Kyle on Slack:
Systemd can handle this, see https://docs.cribl.io/stream/deploy-single-instance/#systemd-boot

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  • March 11, 2025

Copying the answer I received from Kyle on Slack:
Systemd can handle this, see https://docs.cribl.io/stream/deploy-single-instance/#systemd-boot