Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:27:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Andrew Ryder <aryder@bestweb.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FireWall Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971112122609.440J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3469E1ED.6FEAE3AE@bestweb.net>
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On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Andrew Ryder wrote: > 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 To view all the sysctl's, run `sysctl -a'. You must compile your kernel with the options outlined in the ipfw(8) man page for these sysctl's to show. Then you need to modify /etc/syslog.conf to pick up messages from ipfw and route them to a different file. See syslog.conf(5) for details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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