RE: ipchains logging

[Dan de Haan <Dan omnexcontrols com>]

What would one do yo make it so those messages do not go to
/var/log/messages, but just /var/log/ipchains (like listed below)?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [mailto:mikkel@Infinity-ltd.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 6:58 PM
> To: guinness-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: ipchains logging
> 
> 
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Lee Howard wrote:
> 
> > if I do this:
> > 
> > ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ -l
> > 
> > then where does that '-l' logging information go to?
> > 
> > <man ipchains>
> >        -l, --log
> >               Turn  on  kernel logging of matching packets.  When
> >               this option is set for a  rule,  the  Linux  kernel
> >               will print some information of all matching packets
> >               (like most IP header fields) via printk().
> > </man ipchains>
> > 
> > I would like to monitor what is being forwarded (from and 
> to IPs is fine).
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Lee Howard
> > 
> > 
> > 
> It will go to syslogd, with a setting of kern and info.  If 
> you put in a
> log entry like this:
> kern.=info                                         
> /var/log/ipchains       
> it will put these messages in a file called ipchains.  You 
> will probably
> find the messages in /var/log/messages now.  They will still be put in
> there with the new entry in /etc/syslog.conf, unless you make more
> modifications to the config file.
> 
> Mikkel
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