From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Mayo Subject: Re: Logging to the screen Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:41:08 -0600 Message-ID: <438B1704.4040204@mail.bloomfield.k12.mo.us> References: <43836074.3000403@mail.bloomfield.k12.mo.us> <200511221239.01763.rob0@gmx.co.uk> Reply-To: sgmayo@mail.bloomfield.k12.mo.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200511221239.01763.rob0@gmx.co.uk> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org /dev/rob0 wrote: > On Tuesday 2005-November-22 12:16, Scott Mayo wrote: > >>the actual firewall itself and see all this info that I had my >>IPTABLES log, on the screen. Any reason why it is not sending it to >>the /var/log/messages? Thanks. > > > The answer is in your LOG rules (--log-level) and syslog.conf(5). LOG > uses syslog(2) facility "kern" and priority as set in --log-level > (default is probably "info".) Thanks for the info. I got to reading the man pages on syslog. My iptables were logging with the value 'debug'. From what I read, if I understand this correctly, that will cause syslog to send the message to the screen. I changed my iptables to a log-level of 'info' and it is now sending the messages to /var/log/messages. Thanks again. -- Scott Mayo Technology Coordinator Bloomfield Schools PH: 573-568-5669 FA: 573-568-4565 Pager: 800-264-2535 X2549 Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.