On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:13:52AM -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 13:27 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > > This looks really good, thanks for the heads up. > > > > On Tue, 25 May 2004 19:11:48 +0200, kh <khage@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Mark Haney wrote: > > > > > >> Is there a gui for configuring the firewall other than the one in the > > >> initial install? I guess I'm getting lazy because I'm tired of > > >> configuring iptables by hand. > > >> > > > i an very happy with firestarter. A excellent gui firewall. > > > > > Using firestarter with good success, but had a problem with excessive > console and GUI messages on the busy intranet at work. Workaround was > to use "dmesg -n4" to quiet it down, and to turn off display of traffic > not directed at my host in the GUI. Still lots of logging showing up > in /var/log/message or interactive dmesg, but at least can now use the > VCs. Any good advice on this? You really need a finer-grained logging structure to be totally happy. They are out there: syslog-ng, etc. They all require work to set up. One of these days, somebody is going to get pissed off enough to totally boot the old logging framework out of mainline. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx
