Log files for iptables

Log files for iptables

[Sameer Gurung]

Hi,
  Can anybody tell me where are the log files for
iptables ....cant seem to find them on /var/log. Do I
have to configure / change /tweak somthing to enable
loging???

Sameer

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Re: Log files for iptables

[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 13 May 2004 10:28 am, Sameer Gurung wrote:

> Hi,
>   Can anybody tell me where are the log files for
> iptables ....cant seem to find them on /var/log. Do I
> have to configure / change /tweak somthing to enable
> loging???

The output of any rules specifying the LOG target is handled by your syslog 
daemon (for which the config file is probably /etc/syslog.conf).

You can specify the logging level in the netfilter rule (with the --log-level 
option to the LOG target) but you cannot change the facility number without 
fiddling around with the source code.

If you don't specify anything particular in your LOG rules, you will probably 
end up with log output sent to the console.

Regards,

Antony.

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Re: Log files for iptables

[Oscar Arranz]

Look into /var/log/kernel .

Sameer Gurung wrote:

>Hi,
>  Can anybody tell me where are the log files for
>iptables ....cant seem to find them on /var/log. Do I
>have to configure / change /tweak somthing to enable
>loging???
>
>Sameer
>
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>  
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Re: Log files for iptables

[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 13 May 2004 11:02 am, Oscar Arranz wrote:

> Sameer Gurung wrote:
> >Hi,
> >  Can anybody tell me where are the log files for
> >iptables ....cant seem to find them on /var/log. Do I
> >have to configure / change /tweak somthing to enable
> >loging???
> >
> Look into /var/log/kernel .

What distribution/s do you find that on, and what goes into it?   It doesn't 
exist in Slackware, for example.

Regards,

Antony.

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because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. 
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some 
things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we 
don't know we don't know."

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Re: Log files for iptables

[Klemen Kecman]

> On Thursday 13 May 2004 11:02 am, Oscar Arranz wrote:
>
> > Sameer Gurung wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >  Can anybody tell me where are the log files for
> > >iptables ....cant seem to find them on /var/log. Do I
> > >have to configure / change /tweak somthing to enable
> > >loging???
> > >
> > Look into /var/log/kernel .
>
> What distribution/s do you find that on, and what goes into it?   It
doesn't
> exist in Slackware, for example.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antony.
>
> --
> "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to
me,
> because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we
know.
> We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are
some
> things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we
> don't know we don't know."
>
>  - Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence
>
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list;
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me.
>
>

I run slackware and log output goes to /var/log/messages by default. I
configured syslog to log into /var/log/iptables.

Klemen