-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/19/08 00:16, JW wrote: > Hello, > > Iptables is annoying me by: > > 1) printing logs to the console > > 2) filling my /var/log/messages up with the same logs, which then get picked > up and uselessly emailed to me by logcheck and logwatch. > > Of course all the logging is controlled by syslog, not iptables. > > What I really want is for those logs (which are not worthy of > their "kernel.warning" status) to go to their own file. > > Google searching has turned up dozens of possible options, all of which seem > like rather untidy hacks. > > What's the "right" way to do it?
Use the system logger. You're probably using the default, sysklogd, and it's control file /etc/syslog.conf. So, study up on it, particularly "$ man 5 syslog.conf", and Google from there. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhaAoQACgkQS9HxQb37Xmd3qgCgn2vSvqQwL+o6kp10fc3oFxhT Mo0AoLO/8rX4K5vP+nL98YL04re7NKVl =1oS0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
