From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Log lines from the CLI, was [ANNOUNCE] conntrack-tools 1.0.0 released
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:39:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D77832B.3090803@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D74DDEA.5060207@tana.it>
On 07/03/11 14:30, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 27/Feb/11 03:28, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>> - The command line interface (CLI) conntrack that provides an interface
>> to add, delete and update flow entries, list current active flows in
>> plain text/XML, current IPv4 NAT'ed flows, reset counters, and flush the
>> complete connection tracking table among many other.
>
> Although this is a command line tool, I guess it is mostly used in
> scripts, or execv'ed by other command line utilities according to some
> parameters, possibly non-interactively. Thus, there is a usability
> concern about its output.
>
> I would like to see regular lines such as "NNN flow entries have been
> deleted" at LOG_INFO, while something like "Operation failed: %s"
> possibly deserves LOG_CRIT. Would it be possible to use dlog in
> conntrack.c?
The command line tool is not designed for logging. For that purpose you
can use ulogd2.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-27 2:28 [ANNOUNCE] conntrack-tools 1.0.0 released Pablo Neira Ayuso
2011-02-28 6:45 ` xuhainanjing
2011-03-07 13:30 ` Log lines from the CLI, was [ANNOUNCE] " Alessandro Vesely
2011-03-09 13:39 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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