On Mar 24 10:13:05, thatseattle...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm playing with the latest 5.3 snapshot and I'm getting an > always-empty /var/log/pflog. I'm wondering if there's a problem with > the snapshot (unlikely) or something I did wrong in my configuration > (much more likely). > > ps -aux shows "pflogd" is not running, which I assume is the source of > the problem. In rc.conf (which I did not change of course) the pf > lines are: > > pf=YES # Packet filter / NAT > pf_rules=/etc/pf.conf # Packet filter rules file > pflogd_flags= # add more flags, e.g. "-s 256" > > And here's my rc.conf.local: > > ntpd_flags="" > hotplugd_flags="" > named_flags="" > check_quotas=NO > > That's it. Is there something I should be doing in rc.conf.local or > elsewhere to get pflogd running? (I could do pflogd_flags=YES, maybe, > but I thought that wasn't necessary, that pflogd would start > automagically if pf was enabled.)
Do you actually log something in your pf.conf? Does such traffic actually occur?