Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:19:42 +1000 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: freebsd-pf <freebsd-pf@freebsd.org> Subject: pflogd and newsyslog messages Message-ID: <20070828201942.07894@caamora.com.au>
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greetings all, i had a few words with another person who posted a similar report. i do not think that this (what is happening is an error but i cannot find out why or understand how this is happening .. i would appreciate some assistance withe find out, please. the machine is a recycle p5 133 mhz with buslogic (bt-958) SCSI host adapter, a couple of scsi drives (hdd and cd) and 64 mb dram, a digital 21040 10 mhz nic (de0) std tsenglabs 4000 video card. this makes for a nice gateway/router machine. it has worked at this job for some 15/20 years and sits behind a un-interuptable (sine-wave conditioner and 2kva battery. it started out with freebsd v2.0.5-release and is now running freebsd v6.2-release. it ran freebsd v2 from 199? (when it was released) untill a couple of months ago when i formated the disk-drives and did a clean disk installation of freebsd v6.2-release. sorry i don not have much skill with freebsd v6 ad none with pf ( i have been a ipfw user, the one based on v2.0.5). i noticed these log message entries in /var/log/debug.log with this entry. Aug 25 00:00:02 ???????? pflogd[350]: [priv]: msg PRIV_OPEN_LOG received Aug 26 00:00:02 ???????? pflogd[350]: [priv]: msg PRIV_OPEN_LOG received Aug 27 00:00:02 ???????? pflogd[350]: [priv]: msg PRIV_OPEN_LOG received Aug 28 00:00:02 ???????? pflogd[350]: [priv]: msg PRIV_OPEN_LOG received i changed the /etc/newsyslog(5) entry so that it would gather the data in one file once a day, makes it easier to use tools like ethereal to view the days entries/data/happenings/stuff, when the newsyslog entry was as original this log entry would happen 3 or 4 times a day, as per my original reply to Michael and his error report, that is why i thought that my situation was like his, and it was an error report. uuum i am not, sorry, i do not know what is happening here, would somebody explain to me what is happening and why pflogd is making this log entry, please. i looked at Google, there was only one entry but it was associated with an error situation, a fatal trap 12 in fact, mine is not like that, it appears to be pflogd telling me that it is doing, something, i do not understand. is it possible to turn this off ?? will it hide something if turn this off ?? kind regards jonathan please excuse my typing/spelling, english is not my first language and i am disabled from birth. -- ================================================================ powered by .. QNX, OS9 and freeBSD -- http://caamora com au/operating system ==== === appropriate solution in an inappropriate world === ====
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