From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 13 10:44:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA06662 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:44:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA06656 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA13401; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:44:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma013395; Thu Nov 13 10:43:51 1997 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id KAA19571; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:43:51 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199711131843.KAA19571@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: ipfw and syslog.conf In-Reply-To: from Postmaster at "Nov 13, 97 07:21:56 pm" To: pm@ns.online.samara.ru (Postmaster) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:43:51 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Postmaster writes: > I insert in syslog.conf next strings > > !ipfw > *.* /var/log/ipfw.log > > but all ipfw output direct to console > What I must doing that the ipfw output put to ipfw.log What appears on the console is determined by a different line in /etc/syslog.conf (namely, the one that says "/dev/console"). Take a look at the syslog.conf(5) man page and compare with the entries in your /etc/syslog.conf to see if the behavior you're seeing makes sense. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com