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From: "Gareth Bailey" <blygar1@webmail.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Ipmon & security log rotation
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The -D flag tells it to run as daemon. Starting ipmon with
ipmon_flags="-D /var/log/security" in rc.conf works fine.
It logs to security as required. The problem comes in when
the /var/log/security file is rotated by newsyslog. After
this occurs, logging stop all together even though ipmon is
still running!

Thanks
Gareth

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:52:40 -0400
 "JJB" <Barbish3@adelphia.net> wrote:
> If you are saying that you have "/sbin/ipmon -D
> /var/log/security"
> on the rc.conf statement, then you are telling it to do 2
> conflicting things. The /var/log/security part needs to
> be removed.
> It's telling ipmon to use manual log file after you tell
> with -d to
> use syslog log function.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of
> Gareth
> Bailey
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 8:16 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Ipmon & security log rotation
> 
> I start ipmon at boot time with "/sbin/ipmon -D
> /var/log/security". Ipmon works fine but seems to stop
> logging entries to the security logfile when it is
> rotated.
> 
> newsyslog.conf sets mode to 700, which should be fine
> since
> ipmon is run as root (i think?)
> 
> How could i correct this?
> 
> Thanks
> Gareth
>
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