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Re: Problem with logging firewall packets



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On Friday 25 May 2001  8:42 am, Giacomo Mulas wrote:
> iptables, however. Logs from iptables are indeed recorded in the logs, but
> they also *always* turn up on whatever console I am using. The kernel log

Check /etc/syslog.conf for anything directing messages to /dev/console or 
/dev/tty0 and comment out the lines if you don't want them. Some systems 
(potato? I can't remember what it did, I'm using woody) direct all kernel 
messages to the console as that usually means a small number of important 
messages only. Firewall logging creates an exception to that rule.

You can probably put a filter in syslog.conf that will just exclude firewall 
logs from the console by some characteristic like their (presumably) low 
priority, but I don't know how. Commenting out the lines is a workaround.

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