Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 09:56:38 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Nash <nash@Mcs.Net> To: Jan Koum <jkb@best.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw WAS: Re: [linux-security] New Program: Abacus Sentry Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971208095421.25350B-100000@Venus.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971208010301.24278A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
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On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Jan Koum wrote: > Actually, the above can also be considered security problem since > people can't see if they were attacked two days or weeks ago. Too much > stuff gets logged in and gets pushed from the dmesg buffer. > It would be really nice to be able to log ipfw to hard drive with > the date/time of packets being denied. Man page for ipfw SEE ALSO reffers > to syslog(8), but: > % grep syslog /usr/src/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.c > % You're looking in the wrong place, see /usr/src/sys/netinet/ip_fw.c instead. ipfw uses the kernel's printf, which does get picked up by syslog. Alex
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