Hi, How can I stop Iptables logging to the console? I don't know where else to look. Below are my sysctl.conf and syslog.conf files Thanks for your help ########################################### Here's my sysctl.conf: # Kernel sysctl configuration file for Red Hat Linux # # For binary values, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled. See sysctl(8) and # sysctl.conf(5) for more details. # Controls IP packet forwarding net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 # Controls source route verification net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 # Controls the System Request debugging functionality of the kernel kernel.sysrq = 0 # Controls whether core dumps will append the PID to the core filename. # Useful for debugging multi-threaded applications. kernel.core_uses_pid = 1 # Stop logging to the console kernel.printk = 3 4 1 7 ########################################### ########################################### Here's my syslog.conf: # Log all kernel messages to the console. # Logging much else clutters up the screen. #kern.* /dev/console #kern.* /var/log/messages # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher. # Don't log private authentication messages! *.info;mail.none;news.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages # The authpriv file has restricted access. authpriv.* /var/log/secure # Log all the mail messages in one place. mail.* /var/log/maillog # Log cron stuff cron.* /var/log/cron # Everybody gets emergency messages #*.emerg * *.emerg /var/log/messages # Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file. uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler # Save boot messages also to boot.log local7.* /var/log/boot.log # # INN # news.=crit /var/log/news/news.crit news.=err /var/log/news/news.err news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice ########################################### -- Regards Robert Smile... it increases your face value