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From: "Erik Paulsen Skålerud" <erik@pentadon.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Reichert [reichert@numachi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 7:47 PM
> Subject: Re: FW: Question about logging.
> On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 07:41:56PM +0200, Erik Paulsen Skålerud wrote:
> > I'm forwarding this to security@, as I'm getting no replies
> on ipfw@.
> >
> > Hope it's relevant enough for you :(
> >
> > Sorry for asking this, It's probably been asked before, but I've
> > searched google for a while now with no results :( I'm wondering if
> > it's possible to restrict ipfw to -only- log to /var/log/ipfw.log ?
> > Seems like the only way to remove ipfw-logging from the console output
> > (dmesg) is to disable the security messages to the console.. Is there
> > really no other way?
>
> It says right in the mapagfe for ipfw(8):
>
>   When a packet matches a rule with the log keyword, a message will
>   be logged to syslogd(8) with a LOG_SECURITY facility.
>
> So, unless you modify ipfw iteslf, you get to tune your
> syslogd.conf file.
Yeah, I've gotten that far. But, how can I explicity -only- filter out ipfw
messages from the default console output? Looks like the only way is to
remove kern.debug :(

Erik.

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