From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 15 14: 3:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from l98uppx1.hewitt.com (l98uppx1.hewitt.com [4.17.250.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 682FA37B422 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:03:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from noaccess@localhost) by l98uppx1.hewitt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA09892; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:02:40 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: l98upfw32.hewitt.com: noaccess set sender to using -f Received: from lintng1.hewitt.com(10.20.68.64) by l98upfw32 via smap (V2.1+anti-relay+anti-spam) id xma009789; Fri, 15 Sep 00 16:02:12 -0500 Received: by lintng1.hewitt.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.6 (890.1 7-16-1999)) id 8625695B.00738FBC ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:02:14 -0500 X-Lotus-FromDomain: HEWITT ASSOCIATES NA From: "Jeff Vehrs" To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <8625695B.00738F41.00@lintng1.hewitt.com> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:02:06 -0500 Subject: Re: ipfw log to dmesg??!! not security.log??!! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmm... ok. Now, I have another question. Is there a way for me to "redirect" ipfw messages away to the correct file? From: Mike Meyer on 09/15/2000 02:28 PM To: Jeff Vehrs/National/Hewitt Associates@Hewitt Associates NA cc: Client: Subject: Re: ipfw log to dmesg??!! not security.log??!! Jeff Vehrs writes: > Yes. It is there in /etc/syslog.conf. > > However, I just type 'dmesg' and it has all ipfw "deny" messages, no more > information(such as cdrom, video, etc...) there. What's the heck is going on? dmesg displays the system messages buffer. The kernel firewall facility uses that, just like the boot information you're referring to. You've apparently got enough ip stuff logged that the buffer has filled, and the boot information is now gone.