syslog - iptables

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Wed Oct 6 11:46:35 UTC 2004


On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 06:22:19 -0400, menonrr at jmu.edu wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thank You for all the help with earlier issues. I am a new
> student of Redhat Linux.
> 
> Please give me some steps to log iptables to a different log
> file. 

Close to impossible unless you downloaded and used ulogd. By default,
iptables logs to a non-changable syslogd facility, and you can only
choose the priority level. See sysklogd manual pages. So, if you
changed your default /etc/syslog.conf to write 'kernel' log messages
to a different file, you would get not just iptables log messages in
there, but all other kernel log messages of the same priority.

> Also is there any free tool that can display the syslogs/other
> logs clearly?

Even more clearly?

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