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Date:      Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:51:26 -0600 (CST)
From:      Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
To:        Ronnie Clark <ronj_clark@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW Logging
Message-ID:  <20020415203432.U57269-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net>
In-Reply-To: <1018924374.215.3.camel@compudyne2.clark.us>

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Ronnie Clark wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG:

> Hello all!
>
> Two quick questions. Is it possible to have IPFW log to a mysql
> database? Or do I need a third party software, or some custom script
> to accomplish this?

IPFW logs to syslogd(8). See syslog.conf(5)... it is possible to pipe
syslog output to a command, which could then, in theory, be used to
parse the log entries and insert them into a database. Not having ever
had occasion to try this, I would recommend thorough load testing.
:-)

- Ryan

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