Re: Creating a logfile for Netfilter

[Tim Haynes <debian@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk>]

Stefan Srdic <linuxbox@telusplanet.net> writes:

> Anyway, as you can guess I am using netfilter for firewalling.
> 
> How can I pipe all logs from Netfilter into a single logfile?
> 
> Lets say I wanted all log messages from netfilter to be loged into
> /var/log/netfilter. How could I accomplish that?

FWIW, my approach: assert a log-prefix in your logging iptables rules, and
install syslog-ng with a regexp match to pick up your prefix (make it
distinctive, eg 'Catch-all: .*IN=.*OUT=' would probably be precise enough).

HTH,

~Tim
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