From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: netfilter: Make nflog quiet when no one listen in userspace. Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:30:44 +0200 Message-ID: <484C2554.9020301@trash.net> References: <> <1212919510-6499-1-git-send-email-eric@inl.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Leblond Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:43431 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753909AbYFHSay (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 14:30:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1212919510-6499-1-git-send-email-eric@inl.fr> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Eric Leblond wrote: > The message "nf_log_packet: can't log since no backend logging module loaded > in! Please either load one, or disable logging explicitly" was displayed for > each logged packet when no userspace application is listening to nflog events. > The message seems to warn for a problem with a kernel module missing but as > said before this is not the case. I thus propose to suppress the message (I > don't see any reason to flood the log because a user application has crashed.) Yes, that message has annoyed me on multiple occasions as well. Applied, thanks Eric.