Re: iptables logging to console (all basic solutions have failed)
Hey Adam!
I was right about to reply to that message, but you were faster at reposting
my old reply to it! LOL it's great fun seeing your messages recycled :)
Hope it helped (again) :)
Miquel
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 09:55:28PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
> This looks extremely fruitful. If it DOESN"T work I'll let the list know:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0105/msg00052.html
>
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>
> Hi there!
> Sorry to bring up such an old threat, but I didn't see any solutions posted,
> and I just found the cause.
>
> The problem was ipchains (or iptables) printing messages on the console no
> matter how much you tried to make it shut up :) Well, I had the problem also
> with smbmount.
>
> Anyway, the problem was that klogd is displaying on the console all the
> messages with any priority greater than debug (7) (see man klogd). To keep
> it from doing that, load it with "klogd -c 5" for example. That will log
> only errors or highr priorities and will prevent the flooding!
>
> If you use debian, edit /etc/init.d/klogd and edit the line where it says:
> KLOGD=""
> to be
> KLOGD="-c 4"
>
> Have fun!
> Miquel
>
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>
> And the follow up post was:
>
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> Thank you, thank you.
>
> I just checked to see if you had filed a bug report and found that the bug
> (and the fix) had been filed 11 days ago.
>
> One good thing about this bug is that all those console messages about my
> ipchains REJECTs and DENYs resulted in a better firewall.
>
> But why did it affect (apparently) only a handful of people?
>
> Lindsay
>
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Warner [mailto:mailing_lists@consulting.net.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, 14 June 2001 7:33 p.m.
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: iptables logging to console (all basic solutions have failed)
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running Debian testing with a custom compiled 2.4.5 kernel. Since I've
> enabling logging with my iptables rules (at info and warn levels) every
> single log is being output to the current console.
>
> At no point in /etc/syslog.conf do I have any logging to /dev/console. And
> attempts to log to, say, /dev/tty8 work but continue to log to the current
> console.
>
> Yes, I used apt-get install klogd after searching archives and finding that
> this should be installed (I initially started a while ago with a floppy
> install of 2.2r3).
>
> I've tried rebooting, restarting syskogd and klogd and finding messages in
> the archives that go along the line of "yeah, this appears to be happening
> to some people."
>
> As you can imagine, it's very easy for iptables logs to flood the console in
> a second.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
>
>
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