Re: iptables and syslog

[Yann Lejeune <yann.lejeune@gmail.com>]

On 2006/02/23-23:07(+0100), Luis Fernando Llana Díaz wrote :
>   a couple of years ago I designed a firewall with iptables. I wrote some 
> rules of the kind:
> iptables ...... -LOG
> The packages that mathed the rule were displayed in /var/log/syslog. Now I 
> have had to change the firewall, since I had some errors I have written some 
> rules like 
> iptables -A INPUT -j LOG --log-level notice
> that but I have no information in /var/log/syslog.
> 
>   I assume that somthing has change. I have added the line
> kern.notice;kern.!warn          /var/log/firewall
> but I don't get any information in the file /var/log/firewall

Hi,
 You could also use the ULOG target and the ulogd daemon to achieve such
 job. You just have to modify your logging rules.


Regards