On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:12, Edwin Dicker wrote: > Hi All, > > On my Iptables firewall some packets gets logged to /var/log/messages. > The messages file is getting unreadable with all these iptables logging and > I am looking for a better way to log these messages. > Since these are kernel messages my thought went to the syslog.conf file and > I configured that all kern.warn events should be logged to /var/log/firewall > ( so they dont mess up my messages file ) after doing this it looks like > only half of the messages gets logged in /var/log/firewall and the other > half still gets logged to /var/log/messages. > > Are there different types of severity concerning iptables logging ? > Has someone got a better idea to prevent messing up the messages file ? > http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2003-January/041259.html http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/iptables_fw.html -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 13:36:56 up 4:43, 3 users, load average: 1.47, 1.65, 1.38
