Iptables logging

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:12, Edwin Dicker wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> On my Iptables firewall some packets gets logged to /var/log/messages.
> The messages file is getting unreadable with all these iptables logging and
> I am looking for a better way to log these messages.
> Since these are kernel messages my thought went to the syslog.conf file and
> I configured that all kern.warn events should be logged to /var/log/firewall
> ( so they dont mess up my messages file ) after doing this it looks like
> only half of the messages gets logged in /var/log/firewall and the other
> half still gets logged to /var/log/messages.
> 
> Are there different types of severity concerning iptables logging ?
> Has someone got a better idea to prevent messing up the messages file ?
> 
http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2003-January/041259.html

http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/iptables_fw.html

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