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Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:45:52 +0100
From:      "Zbigniew Szalbot" <zszalbot@gmail.com>
To:        "Rakhesh Sasidharan" <rakhesh@rakhesh.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pflogd log
Message-ID:  <94136a2c0801220845w6bbf50c9q7ba59052c72e871d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080122202158.R45709@dogmatix.home.rakhesh.com>
References:  <94136a2c0801220259x1b7dd4efw7a8fc1e8a60d2cc9@mail.gmail.com> <20080122202158.R45709@dogmatix.home.rakhesh.com>

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Hello,

2008/1/22, Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com>:
>
> > I noticed that pflog is not being written to.
> >
> > $ l /var/log/pflog
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  60 Jan 22 00:00 /var/log/pflog
> >
> > However, the process running pflogd runs as _pflogd. Does this mean I
> > should chown the log file with user _pflogd?
>
> I don't think so. Had a look at my machine, /var/log/pflog has permissions
> like on yours.
>
> > _pflogd    248  0.0  0.2  1632  1056  ??  S     6:49AM   0:01.31
> > pflogd: [suspended] -s 116 -f /var/log/pflog (pflogd)
> >
> > To complete the picture:
> >
> > $ ps aux |grep pf
> > root        36  0.0  0.0     0     8  ??  DL    6:49AM   0:01.04 [softdepflush]
> > root       246  0.0  0.2  1568  1004  ??  Is    6:49AM   0:00.01
> > pflogd: [priv] (pflogd)
> > _pflogd    248  0.0  0.2  1632  1056  ??  S     6:49AM   0:01.32
> > pflogd: [suspended] -s 116 -f /var/log/pflog (pflogd)
>
> I don't have pflogd: [suspended] though. Its pflogd: [running] for me.
> Have you tried restart /etc/rc.d/pflog?

Thanks! Need to find out what is going on. Have restarted pflogd but
it is still showing suspend for me.

Zbigniew Szalbot


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