also sprach JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.06.19.0716 +0200]: > 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.
So remove the rules that jump to the LOG chain. I assume you're using some sort of "firewall" tool which generates those. You ought to look there for the problem and then hit the maintainer with the cluebat. > What I really want is for those logs (which are not worthy of > their "kernel.warning" status) to go to their own file. Check out syslog-ng, which can do filtering based on line content/regexps. PS: nothing Debian-specific in this at all... -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "'the answer to the great question...' 'of life, the universe and everything...' said deep thought. 'is...' said deep thought, and paused. 'is...' 'forty-two,' said deep thought, with infinite majesty and calm." -- hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
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