Laurent wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for a clean way to log firewall iptables messages on
> Slackware 10.0.
>
> For now I use the following syslog.conf to redirect debug messages to
> firewall log :
> kern.*;kern.!=debug -/var/log/syslog
> kern.=debug -/var/log/firewall
> but this also includes miscellaneous other kernel debug messages I want to
> keep in standard /var/log/debug log file.
>
> So my question is "will I be condamned to use ulogd ?"
>
> Best regards
>


What's wrong with using ulogd? If I understand the netfilter changes
[1] that have gone into 2.6.14, the userspace logging is going to more
or less be the standard for iptables in the future, although it will
retain the capability to log via syslog.


[1] Bear in mind that it's quite possible for me *not* fully
understand the 2.6.14 changes to netfilter

RW

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