From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 12 12:27:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA06256 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:27:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA06250 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:27:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA00525; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:27:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:27:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Andrew Ryder cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FireWall Question In-Reply-To: <3469E1ED.6FEAE3AE@bestweb.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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