Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:42:51 +0100 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Subject: Re: IPMON log to syslog doesn't work Message-ID: <200802261542.52179.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <20080226142537.GA87016@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20080226132032.GA86468@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> <200802261509.14823.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20080226142537.GA87016@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tuesday 26 February 2008 15:25:37 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:09:14PM +0100, Mel wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 February 2008 14:20:32 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > I'm trying to troubleshoot my ipfilter firewall, and I cannot get any
> > > log data, i.e. /var/log/ipfilter.log is empty.
> >
> > Does:
> > # logger -p security.notice test
> > put anything in the log?
>
> yes:
>
> # logger -p security.notice test
> # cat /var/log/ipfilter.log
> Feb 26 00:00:00 mech-cluster238 newsyslog[21510]: logfile turned over
> Feb 26 14:17:07 mech-cluster238 mexas: test
> # cat /var/log/security
> Jul 20 10:52:47 newsyslog[463]: logfile first created
> Feb 26 14:17:07 mech-cluster238 mexas: test
> #
>
> so what does this mean?
That syslog works correctly and it's really ipmon. Are you sure it's running?
How about ipmon -s (without the -D), does that turn up in syslog?
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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