From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 7 08:17:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA07539 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 08:17:26 -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 IAA07532 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 08:17:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id IAA25249; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 08:16:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma025245; Fri Nov 7 08:16:35 1997 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) id IAA15014; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 08:16:35 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199711071616.IAA15014@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: ipfw in syslog.conf? In-Reply-To: from Thomas Stromberg at "Nov 7, 97 10:48:06 am" To: nonxstnt@darkening.com (Thomas Stromberg) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 08:16:35 -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 Thomas Stromberg writes: > is it possible to give ipfw it's own identifier in syslog.conf? (or does > it already?). I would like to have an ipfw.log, and not have all of the > logs end up on console either. > > If it does not already exist, I think it would be a nice feature to add, > for people like me who get 15000+ entries logged a day. I'm pretty sure the current 2.2 code allows you to put this into /etc/syslog.conf: # Put all ipfw output into its own log file !ipfw *.* /var/log/ipfw If this doesn't work let me know and I'll try to recall what hacks we did to make it work :-) -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com