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From: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
Subject: Re: netfilter logging
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:02:14 -0400
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:25:33PM +0100, Jimmy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just started to log my iptables drops. As seen with this line in my
> iptables-save output.
> 
> -A INPUT -j LOG --log-level 1
> -A INPUT -j LOG --log-prefix "Dropped: "
> 
> What I would like to know is how I can get iptables to NOT log to console
> only to the message logs. Currently it goes into /var/log/syslog

change your log level from 1 to something less critical; like say, 4.

and then type this on the console:

  dmesg -n 1

which will only print truly critical messages to the console (level 0
and 1).

-j

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