Re: nftables: logging

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Christoph A. wrote:
> from iptables I'm used to see the logging output in the default syslog
> files, with nftables this seams to be different.
> My rule looks like this:
> 
> [...]
> ct state new log prefix "start: " accept
> 
> but there are no log entries in the syslog file.
> Where does nftables writes its logs?
> 
> The nft_log module is loaded:
> lsmod|grep nft_l
> nft_log                 1952  1
> nf_tables              25540  43
> nft_meta,nft_log,nft_payload,nft_ct,nft_rbtree,nft_hash,nf_tables_ipv4
> 
> For testing it would be very handy to have a working logging setup.
> 
> Is there already a way to dump the current rules from the kernel to
> stdout (like iptables -vnL) - if this is even possible?

nftables uses the netfilter logging API, which needs a backend
to actually make something out of the entries. You can either
load ipt_LOG/ip6t_LOG or use nfnetlink_log.