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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netfilter: Make nflog quiet when no one listen in userspace.
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:30:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <484C2554.9020301@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1212919510-6499-1-git-send-email-eric@inl.fr>

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.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-08 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-08 10:05 netfilter: Make nflog quiet when no one listen in userspace Eric Leblond
2008-06-08 18:30 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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