From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 12 09:04:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA18119 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 09:04:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from okeefe.bestweb.net (okeefe.bestweb.net [208.197.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA18071 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 09:03:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aryder@bestweb.net) Received: from bestweb.net (spline@opal.eblan.com [209.94.111.26]) by okeefe.bestweb.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id MAA24636 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:00:38 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3469E1ED.6FEAE3AE@bestweb.net> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 17:05:49 +0000 From: Andrew Ryder X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FireWall Question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I was looking through the man pages of ipfw and it said I can change the area where ipfw sends its messages (normally /dev/console) with sysctl. Upon looking through the man pages of sysctl, it had lost me on exactly how I could log to a different area. Is there a way via syslog or wherever that I can log all the ipfw messages to /var/log/ipfw and treat it as a normal log? Please respond to this email since I am not on this list. Thanks -- /* Andrew Ryder - aryder@bestweb.net * Intel's Code of Death "F0 0F C7 C8" */