From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 10 0:19:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sequoia.astea.com.au (sequoia.astea.com.au [203.20.95.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9365E1526B for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:19:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from betterformat@astea.com.au) Received: from guildenstern.astea.com.au by sequoia.astea.com.au via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 10 Sep 1999 07:19:36 UT Received: from kliger.astea.com.au (kliger.astea.com.au [222.2.2.50]) by astea.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA09757 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 17:34:12 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199909100734.RAA09757@astea.com.au> From: "betterformat" To: Subject: syslog problem Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 17:09:45 +1000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1162 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, I had my fbsd firewall logging to the console but I wanted to log to a file instead for a while..... so I made the following changes:- *.* @10.0.0.15 *.* /dev/console was changed to:- *.* @10.0.0.15 *.* /var/log/sys.log It stopped logging to the console (I expected this) and didn't start logging to the specified location (yes the location does exist). So I switched back to the original config and now it doesn't even log to the console..... I didn't edit anything else. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I might have broken? Thanks in advance, Leo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message