From owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 30 12:43:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F2AF37B401 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 12:43:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8B843F75 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 12:43:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crist.clark@attbi.com) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (12-234-159-107.client.attbi.com[12.234.159.107]) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with ESMTP id <2003053019435105200r26gue>; Fri, 30 May 2003 19:43:51 +0000 Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (localhost. [127.0.0.1]) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h4UJhoki021339; Fri, 30 May 2003 12:43:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crist.clark@attbi.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h4UJhbHs021338; Fri, 30 May 2003 12:43:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: blossom.cjclark.org: cjc set sender to crist.clark@attbi.com using -f Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 12:43:37 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Erik Paulsen =?unknown-8bit?Q?Sk=E5lerud?= Message-ID: <20030530194337.GB20944@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <006401c324a4$04356330$0a00000a@yes.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <006401c324a4$04356330$0a00000a@yes.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ cc: ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about logging. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" List-Id: IPFW Technical Discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 19:43:52 -0000 On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 01:02:15AM +0200, Erik Paulsen Skålerud wrote: > 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? syslogd(8) gives you the ability to pipe its output through an arbitrary program. You can keep security messages sent to console, but use a filtering program to block ipfw(8) messages. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org