Re: iptables and syslog
Apparently, on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:41:16PM +0100, Michael Hierweck wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I would like to log some paket I reject using iptables:
>
>
> iptables -A mychain -j LOG --log-level warn
>
> But the messages are displayed on the current console. Switching warn to 4,7
> oder debug does not help.
>
> I'm using Woody and did not modify the syslog.conf by hand.
>
In /etc/init.d/klogd, change
KLOGD=""
to
KLOGD="-c 4"
(or any number less than 4)
and restart klogd
From the klogd man page:
-c n Sets the default log level of console messages to n.
iptables logs at priority 4 and, by default, klogd sends anything of a
priority higher than 7 to the console.
--
Tim Moss
debian@to11.net
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