Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:16:41 -0600 From: Daniel Schrock <dschrock@speakeasy.net> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: still having syslog problems Message-ID: <3E2DAAA9.8010206@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <b0j7o0$30ec$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> References: <b0j7o0$30ec$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>
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Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > unfortunately, i don't know the severity rating of the messages that the > firewall is sending. Starting syslogd with the '-vv' flags will tell you the facility and priority. This is great for testing new logs. > > maybe you can help me out. a typical message looks like this: > > Jan 20 20:19:08 <16.5> (806 hostname) id=firewall sn=(serial number of > webramp) time="2003-01-20 20:19:07" fw=(some ip address) pri=5 c=256 m=38 > msg="ICMP packet dropped" n=2956 src==(some ip address) dst==(some ip > address) rule=0^M > > again, an assumption, but i think that pri=5 means priority 5, which seems > to be a notification level event with the cisco router. > > if this is the case, how could i redirect only FreeBSD notifications to go > to messages? > > this is what i have right now: > > ------ > # external hosts (router and firewall) > !router > local7.* /var/log/router-logs > #local7.alert /var/log/router-logs > #local7.crit /var/log/router-logs > #local7.debug /var/log/router-logs > #local7.emerg /var/log/router-logs > #local7.err /var/log/router-logs > #local7.info /var/log/router-logs > #local7.notice /var/log/router-logs > #local7.warn /var/log/router-logs > ------ > > i made the files ahead of time by doing a "touch router-logs". also is > noting this as " !router " allowable? > > i didn't get a clear indication of how to do it in the documentation? is > it local0.notice or something? The Cisco logging facility is configurable: ----from my 2509 config: ! logging facility local4 logging 192.168.23.200 ----from my /etc/syslog.conf *.notice;authpriv.none;auth.none;daemon.none;local0.none;local4.none;local5.none ;local7.none;kern.none /var/log/messages [...skip...] !* local0.* /var/log/ipmon.log local4.* /var/log/router.log local5.* /var/log/switch.log local7.* /var/log/dhcpd.log To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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